Some studies have suggested that patients undergoing infrainguinal bypass surgery after failed endovascular therapy for aortoiliac disease have worse outcomes than those originally treated with ...

Drug-eluting stents, a less-invasive alternative to bypass surgery, are as effective as surgery for many patients with a blockage in the left main coronary artery, a major international study has ...

Self-expanding polyethylene terephthalate and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)-covered stents have been shown to decrease the need for repeat procedures in the iliac artery. [33] Similar to surgical ...

The average person with multiple diseased arteries in the heart does slightly better following coronary artery bypass surgery than after having stents inserted, a new study suggests, but the optimal ...

In patients with common femoral artery disease, balloon angioplasty plus stenting if needed achieves acceptable restenosis and target lesion revascularization (TLR) rates at 1 year. The results render ...

Bypass surgery is better than stents for serious heart disease. A stent is less invasive and usually faster to recover from ...