Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. If you've been diagnosed with a clogged artery in your heart, there's a good chance your doctor recommended angioplasty.

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Key Takeaways Angioplasty is a procedure to open blocked heart arteries using a ...

Aggressive drug therapy appears to be just as good as angioplasty for patients with stable heart disease, a new study finds. "This is really good news for patients," said study lead author Dr. William ...

A vacuum-cleaner-like device that sucks blood clots out of the arteries of heart attack victims before angioplasty reduces the death rate in the following year by nearly half, researchers reported ...

A 49-year-old man successfully underwent complex multi-vessel angioplasty, avoiding open-heart surgery for severe coronary disease.

CHICAGO — Older patients with clogged heart arteries may have a little lower death risk over time if they get bypass operations instead of angioplasty and stents to fix the problem, new research ...

The common practice of giving heart attack patients a clot-busting drug within hours of planned angioplasty could be dangerous, an important new study suggests. Many doctors give the clot-dissolver ...

Mangaluru: Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute has introduced laser angioplasty to manage cases that once required bypass ...

Coronary angioplasty, also known as Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty, is an interventional procedure wherein blood flow is restored in a blocked blood artery supplying to the heart.

OAKLAND PARK (CBS4) - It's the number one killer in American and last year alone cost the U.S. more than $316 billion in healthcare. It's heart disease. One of the leading causes of heart disease is ...

In February 2023, while shooting for the third season of Aarya in Jaipur, Sushmita suffered a massive heart attack due to a ...

Innovative technology like OCT and IVUS (intravascular ultrasound) signi cantly enhances the doctor's decision-making in the real-world practice of PCI. Currently, 30-40% of patients undergoing ...