Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Hargadon in his workshop at home in Georgetown. Hargadon was the first person in the United States to receive the CGuard ...

A stent designed specifically for infants and young children with congenital heart disease has demonstrated strong safety and effectiveness in a pivotal multicenter clinical trial. Children's Hospital ...

When Dr. Robert Tahara performs a limb-saving procedure at Meadville Medical Center (MMC), he often does it without general anesthesia, without an overnight stay, and now, he can do it without leaving ...

Expanded stent physically opens a blocked blood vessel, but interactions between the metal surface and vascular cells can either promote healing or lead to adverse effects. The research team led by Dr ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A newer, less invasive approach to preventing strokes using a device called a stent proved to be as safe and worked just about as well as surgery, U.S. researchers said on Friday, ...

Efficacy is higher for the Xen 45 gel stent implant as a standalone procedure than combined with cataract surgery. The Xen 45 gel stent implant provides effective, long-term treatment for open-angle ...

An Oklahoma man is celebrating Christmas with his family thanks to doctors at OU Health. Doctors performed a procedure for the first time, and it saved a man’s life. “Every day you get up; thank God ...

A pipeline stent is a treatment for a brain aneurysm. It’s a minimally invasive procedure that blocks blood flow through the affected part of the blood vessel. Doctors treat brain aneurysms at risk of ...

Dr. Lee answers the question:'Why Bypass And Not Angioplasty/Stents?' — -- Question: Why Do Some Patients Require Bypass Surgery Instead Of An Angioplasty And Stents? Answer: Both bypass surgery ...

Dr. Michael Acker answers the question: 'Bypass Surgery Versus Stents?' — -- Question: What are the advantages of bypass surgery and the disadvantages of bypass surgery -- as compared with stents ...

Paul Hargadon doesn't put much stock in being the first person in the United States to get a new kind of carotid artery stent. His vascular surgeon Dr. Bradley Boone at Cardiothoracic and Vascular ...