Can heart stents decline over time or need replacement? A cardiologist explains how stents work, why problems can develop, ...

Each year, nearly a million Americans undergo implantation of heart stents. These tiny, wiry tubes of woven metal help prop open the coronary arteries, which supply the heart muscle with blood. Though ...

Former President George W. Bush was hospitalized on Tuesday to treat a blocked artery in his heart. Doctors discovered the blockage during Bush’s routine physical, and recommended a stent to keep the ...

In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Dr. Tamil Muthusamy, a UK and Europe-trained interventional cardiologist now practicing in Kuala Lumpur, to discuss his cutting-edge stent called ...