More Catheter Tests & Procedures News

• Quick Angioplasty Best After Heart Attacks

  June 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new Canadian study adds compelling support for current recommendations ...

• With Heart Attacks, Fast Treatment Matters

  May 20 (HealthDay News) -- People having a heart attack should be given balloon angioplasty ...

• When Chest Pain Requires Quick Action in ER

  May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Only one-third of the people who come to a hospital ...

• Is Bypass Truly Better than Stenting?

  February 18 (HealthDay News) -- In people with severely blocked heart arteries, bypass surgery produced ...

• First Ablation Catheters Approved for Atrial Fibrillation

  February 6 (HealthDay News) -- The first ablation catheters to treat a common form of ...

• Angioplasty Via Wrist May Be Safer

  January 20 (HealthDay News) -- The best way of accessing and treating ailing hearts with ...

• Blood Flow Measurement Boosts Stent Outcomes

  January 14 (HealthDay News) -- A sophisticated measure of blood flow to determine where artery-opening ...

• Reaching the Heart Through the Wrist

  August 18 (HealthDay News) -- Threading a catheter into the heart from the wrist rather ...

• New Drug-Coated Stent Approved

  July 3 (HealthDay News) -- The Xience drug-coated stent, used to prop open a blocked ...

• Opening Clogged Arteries Helps Women After Heart Attack

  July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Contradicting some earlier reports, a new study finds that women ...

• Drug Cuts Muscle Damage After Heart Attack

  Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A drug designed to lessen muscle damage from a heart ...

• First 90 Days After Stopping Plavix Most Dangerous

  Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- New research finds that the first three months after heart ...

• Stents Slightly Better Than Bypass for Blocked Left Coronary Artery

  Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Implanting a stent in a clogged left main coronary artery ...

• Study Finds Both Coated Stents Perform the Same

  Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- In a large study comparing the real-life effectiveness of two ...

• New Computerized Scans Effective for Spotting Clogged Arteries

  Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The new generation of cardiac scanners is almost as reliable ...

• New Anti-Clotting Drug Shows Promise in Heart Patients

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- A new anti-clotting drug might one day challenge Plavix, the ...

• Drug-Coated Stents No Riskier in Long Run Than Bare Metal Ones

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- In the largest study of its kind to date, Harvard ...

• Drug-Coated Stents Go Head to Head

  Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A survey of trials of drug-coated stents finds that those ...

• Severe Asthma May Improve With Bronchial Catheter

  May 31 (iVillage Total Health) -- Researchers have developed an experimental device to help people ...