Short-term elective angioplasty and stenting is similarly safe at experienced surgical centers, whether or not they have onsite cardiac surgery backup, according to a MedPage Today report. Six-week ...

MUNICH, Germany — For heart patients with clogged arteries, the choice between bypass surgery and an angioplasty may come down to one question: How many procedures would you like to have? In research ...

Nov. 14, 2006 — -- The way in which doctors treat heart-attack patients may soon change because of the results of a new study. The findings of the study, released today at the American Heart ...

In what is believed to be the first randomized placebo-controlled trial of its kind, patients with a chronic total blockage of a coronary artery who received a nonsurgical procedure to reopen the ...

The California Department of Public Health recently launched a pilot program that will allow six hospitals without cardiac surgery programs to perform emergency and non-emergency angioplasty, ...

Those patients now should try drugs first, experts say. If that doesn't help, they can consider angioplasty or bypass surgery, which unlike angioplasty does save lives, prevent heart attacks and give ...