Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with kidney failure who successfully used a permanent access for hemodialysis, the incidence of ...

Bethesda, MD - A new study comparing 10-year patency of saphenous vein grafts (SVG) and internal mammary artery grafts (IMA) indicates that while long-term patency of the IMA grafts is better than ...

New data suggest that the 5-year patency for self-expanding covered stents used for the treatment of superficial femoral artery occlusive disease was within an acceptable range, with the larger ...

WASHINGTON, DC—In PAD patients, treatment with a second-generation paclitaxel drug-coated balloon (DCB) led to better target vessel patency and less repeat revascularization in a head-to-head ...

Video capsule endoscopy, commonly used to detect intestinal disease, can be complicated by stenosis that prevents passage of the capsule, often resulting in the need for surgery or endoscopy to remove ...

An estimated 40–60 million men worldwide have undergone vasectomy, accounting for 5–10% of birth control methods currently in use. 1 When a government-backed family planning project launched in 1960, ...

December 10, 2010 (Silver Spring, Maryland) — Should the effectiveness of a drug designed for use following CABG surgery be assessed using a surrogate end point of graft patency? Since aspirin is the ...

Real-world data from a single Japanese center show that IVUS-guided stenting is associated with reasonable 15-year patency rates in older patients treated for iliac disease. Low overall survival rates ...

(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 ...

PATENCY of the ductus arteriosus is a common congenital defect, but it is rare in very old age. In fact we know of no case confirmed at autopsy in a patient so old as John Wood, whom we describe and ...