CHICAGO — Older patients with clogged heart arteries may have a little lower death risk over time if they get bypass operations instead of angioplasty and stents to fix the problem, new research ...

In patients with diabetes, Cryoplasty post-dilation compared to conventional balloon angioplasty decreases the risk of in-stent restenosis of the Superficial Femoral Artery Results of the COBRA Trial ...

If you're among the hundreds of thousands of Americans with clogged kidney arteries, you might want to consider trying medicines before rushing into angioplasty to open them up. The pricey procedure ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ An experimental device that acts like a miniature drill and vacuum cleaner partially broke up clogs inside diseased heart arteries and sucked out the debris, letting doctors conduct ...

More than half a million people a year with chest pain are getting an unnecessary or premature procedure to unclog their arteries because drugs are just as effective, suggests a landmark study that ...

MUNICH (Reuters) - Patients undergoing procedures to clear blocked arteries who respond poorly to standard medicines can reduce their risk of heart attack by having injections of Aggrastat, ...

It's no doubt a question worth asking before undergoing angioplasty: What is the risk of dying from this balloon procedure? Heart specialists have used a risk scale based on information from coronary ...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a condition in which plaque builds up in the arteries. Plaque is made of cholesterol, fat, calcium, and fibrous tissues. When plaque builds up in the arteries, ...