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‘I was preparing to die’: Woman credits less-invasive heart procedure for new lease on life

As February closes out American Heart Month, patients and doctors gathered at Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside for a heart patient reunion aimed at celebrating lives saved and treatments that ...
KRDO

First in Colorado: Pueblo baby receives expandable heart stent for rare condition

A baby from Pueblo is making medical history after becoming the first patient in Colorado to receive a new type of expandable ...
Los Angeles Times

Angioplasty plus stents is as good as surgery for clearing neck arteries, study finds

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A combination of angioplasty and stenting are as good as the gold ...
WRAL

Stenting Can Be Beneficial for Some Heart Patients

Researchers found angioplasty with stents used to open clogged heart arteries did not prolong life or prevent heart attack in patients with stable heart disease. However, many cardiologists said ...
Seattle Times

Bush has stent procedure, which has been debated

MINNEAPOLIS — Former President George W. Bush’s decision to allow doctors to use a stent to clear a blocked heart artery, performed absent symptoms, is reopening a national debate on the best way to ...
Reuters

Stent procedures safe at smaller hospitals: report

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Minor heart procedures can be performed safely even at hospitals that can't do emergency heart surgery in case of complications, a fresh look at past studies suggests. As ...
Fierce Healthcare

Nearly a quarter of hospital stent procedures are unnecessary, fueling billions in low-value spending, Lown Institute finds

More than a fifth of all coronary stents given to Medicare patients at hospitals nationwide from 2019 to 2021 are medically unnecessary, driving more than $2.4 billion in unnecessary program spending ...
EurekAlert!

Repeat angioplasty, stenting significantly increases Medicare costs

DALLAS, June 29 – Repeating balloon angioplasty and/or stenting procedures to open narrowed arteries in elderly patients may add more than $700 million a year to Medicare expenses, according to a ...
Time

President George W. Bush Has Stent Procedure

Former President George W. Bush was hospitalized on Tuesday to treat a blocked artery in his heart. Doctors discovered the blockage during Bush’s routine physical, and recommended a stent to keep the ...
Medscape

SPACE: Carotid stenting falls short of noninferiority vs endarterectomy

Heidelberg, Germany - Results of a randomized trial of carotid stenting vs endarterectomy in symptomatic patients has failed to demonstrate noninferiority of the stenting procedure [1]. The trial, ...
Business Insider

North America Airway Stent Procedures Outlook to 2025 - Airway Stenting Procedures for Other Indications and Malignant Airway Obstruction Stenting Procedures

New York, Nov. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "North America Airway Stent Procedures Outlook to 2025 - Airway Stenting Procedures for Other ...
Forbes

Taxpayers Spent Over $800 Million For Unnecessary Coronary Stents A Year, Report Finds

A new report published Tuesday found over one in five coronary stents placed between 2019 and 2021 were unnecessary, costing Medicare $800 million a year and putting patients at risk of complications ...