Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have shown that combining distal protection devices with the prophylactic use of the drug nicardipine can reduce the risk of complications following ...

Bethesda, MD - Review of consecutive cases at one institution has shown that many patients undergoing percutaneous revascularization of diseased saphenous vein grafts (SVG) do not have suitable ...

Andreas Gruentzig used to say that balloon angioplasty compresses plaque into arterial walls like footprints in soft snow. If he had lived to see the blizzard of sleet, hail, and slush being collected ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of a filter-based distal protection device reduced the incidence of the no-reflow phenomenon and was ...

In patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), thrombus aspiration with distal protection shows an early advantage over aspiration alone in restoring coronary blood flow but ...