One-year success rates from angioplasty procedures to open clogged arteries in the legs were significantly higher among patients whose procedures were guided by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Non-surgical treatment to unblock clogged arteries in legs and feet can save them from being amputated, even though those blood vessels are small and tricky to work in, ...

Angioplasty is a medical procedure that opens up a blocked or narrowed artery around the heart. Doctors also refer to angioplasty as percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI. During angioplasty, a ...

DALLAS -- It's not as routine as having your teeth cleaned, but a growing number of people are going to hospitals to have their heart arteries unclogged and going home the same day. New research ...

Boston, MA - A paclitaxel-coated balloon may end up filling a role never successfully filled by drug-eluting stents (DES): angioplasty of the leg. According to Dr Gunnar Tepe ...

One-year success rates from angioplasty procedures to open clogged arteries in the legs were significantly higher among patients whose procedures were guided by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Patients with severe coronary artery disease live longer if they receive coronary artery bypass surgery as their initial treatment instead of artery-opening angioplasty or heart ...

Balloon angioplasty, also known as percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), is a minimally invasive procedure done to widen narrowed or obstructed blood vessels. The procedure accesses a blood ...