Providence Health and Vascular Center is the only Oregon hospital helping test a new type of heart stent that is not metal and melts away once it’s done its job. Providence Health and Vascular ...

When the arteries that supply blood to the heart become narrowed or clogged, the condition is known as Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). It makes it difficult for the blood to flow to the heart muscle.

Stents restore blood flow by keeping arteries open with a metal scaffold tube. Dr. Wiley emphasized multiple stents over time are common and not alarming. Stents rarely impact lifestyle; risk ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Each year, nearly a million Americans get a stent - a tiny mesh tube that props open a clogged artery. If you have heart disease, your doctor may recommend one. But whether you ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a heart stent made specifically for infants and young children, a device that could help kids born with certain congenital heart defects avoid a ...

PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — A baby from Pueblo is making medical history after becoming the first patient in Colorado to receive a new type of expandable heart stent designed to grow with her. Emma Rae was ...

People who've survived a heart attack and have been given a stent may be better off quitting low-dose aspirin a month after the procedure, a new study finds. The strategy is "beneficial by reducing ...

Now you see it, now you don't. A new type of heart stent that works like dissolving stitches, slowly going away after it has done its job, passed its first major test in a large study, doctors said ...