Birmingham, UK - A multicenter randomized trial has found that lower-limb bypass and balloon angioplasty are equivalent forms of treatment for patients with severe limb ischemia, at least in the ...

Boston, MA - A paclitaxel-coated balloon may end up filling a role never successfully filled by drug-eluting stents (DES): angioplasty of the leg. According to Dr Gunnar Tepe ...

If your arteries are clogged and you're facing an angioplasty, your doctor may offer you an unusual choice: wrist or groin? Though the number of doctors who perform wrist angioplasty remains small in ...

In patients with severe artery blockage in the lower leg, an artery-supporting device called a resorbable scaffold is superior to angioplasty, which has been the standard treatment, according to the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Non-surgical treatment to unblock clogged arteries in legs and feet can save them from being amputated, even though those blood vessels are small and tricky to work in, ...

Patients undergoing angioplasty with a stent not only have a foreign object in their body, but they also must take drugs to keep clots from forming in the stent." In other study results, the ...