(UPDATED) Given the controversy surrounding short-term mortality as a quality metric for PCI in publicly reported databases, could the use of repeat target-lesion PCI be used instead to identify ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Complex target lesion anatomy stenting is associated with increased ischemic event rates in patients undergoing ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Treatment with second-generation drug-eluting stents (DES) is associated with decreased target lesion failure compared with bare metal stents (BMS) in patients with acute myocardial ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A biodegradable polymer sirolimus-eluting stent was noninferior to a biodegradable polymer biolimus-eluting ...

A novel stent—designed to capture circulating endothelial progenitor cells and thus promote healing—has failed to reduce target lesion failure (TLF) at 1 year compared with numerous conventional ...

We examined the impact of the number of target lesions (TLs) on within-patient variability of tumor response. The prognostic effect of TL response (at 12 weeks or on study on the basis of a maximum ...

(RTTNews) - Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (MMSI), a healthcare technology company, announced Tuesday that initial six-months results of WRAPSODY Cell-Impermeable Endoprosthesis or CIE recorded 89.8 ...

PHOENIX -- The novel, next-generation Xience drug-eluting stent (DES) with a 48-mm length met the performance bar with a particularly low restenosis rate, the SPIRIT 48 trial showed. The Xience ...

Epigenetic inactivation of HOXA5 and MSH2 gene in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Background: Primary lesion in mRCC often shows necrotic change or only density changes to targeted therapy. As most ...

Although the frequency of restenosis after coronary angioplasty is reduced by stenting, when restenosis develops within a stent, the risk of subsequent restenosis is greater than 50 percent. We report ...

A lesion is a portion of an organ or a tissue that has been damaged or abnormally changed due to infection or injury LESIONS can form in the lungs for a number of reasons – including as a result of ...