Cardiology specialist Dr. Mark Wiley speaks with The Star about stents and what could be next for KU basketball’s head coach.

The FDA 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 series of open heart ...

For patients with acute coronary syndrome who undergo surgery to receive a heart stent, taking oral antiplatelet medications can be a lifesaver, yet more than half of these patients don't adhere ...

Every year, around 40,000 babies in the U.S. are born with congenital heart defects, often requiring stents to keep their blood vessels open, NBC News reported Oct. 17.

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.

New versions of stents are available coated in drugs that minimize the development of scar tissue, but even those fail to help nearly 1 of every 10 heart patients who need a stent.

In the new trial, outcomes were tracked for up to a year in over 3,400 heart patients treated at 58 centers in four countries. All the patients had undergone non-surgical, catheter-guided ...

The FDA approved the Minima stent to treat two heart conditions: coarctation, or narrowing of the aorta, which is the largest blood vessel in the body; and stenosis, or narrowing and hardening, of ...

Typically, when infants and young children need stents, surgeons trim or modify adult-size stents and squeeze them into the tiny vessels of infants’ hearts, which are about the size of a walnut.

The FDA 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 series of open heart ...