A stent is a small mesh-like tube that reopens a blocked artery to allow blood to flow freely to the heart, thus relieving ...

The FDA has approved the Minima stent system, the first device specifically designed for infants and young children with congenital heart defects. The innovative stent could help thousands of children ...

A Food and Drug Administration panel met last week to discuss the safety of drug-eluting stents, tiny mesh tubes often introduced during angioplasties to keep coronary arteries from re-narrowing. The ...

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 ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Patients given drug-coated stents after an acute heart attack are nearly 5 percent more likely to die a year or more later than those with bare metal forms of the arterial ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A new crop of experimental heart stents have passed some key safety and effectiveness tests and may one day offer alternatives to the controversial stents currently used to keep ...