For patients with iliac artery blockages, treatment with a self-expanding stent provides better protection against restenosis at 12 months and no reduction in safety compared with a balloon-expandable ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . LAS VEGAS — Self-expanding and balloon-expandable stents were equally safe and effective in patients with iliac ...

Stenting of iliac artery disease in patients with severely calcified lesions or extensive peripheral artery disease (PAD)—who historically have been excluded from clinical trials—is safe and effective ...

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Omnilink Elite ® Vascular Balloon-Expandable Stent System for the ...

Although the formation of collaterals is classically regarded as a compensatory mechanism to bypass and thus alleviate an obstruction, the mechanism and inducement of collateral formation are unknown.

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9r4nlm/medipoint) has announced the addition of the "MediPoint: Peripheral ...

EL PASO, Texas -- William Beaumont Army Medical Center became the first military treatment facility in the Department of Defense to use the first "off-the-shelf" aortic branch device (stent graft) ...

The FDA recently approved a self-expanding peripheral stent system for use in the common iliac, external iliac, superficial femoral and subclavian arteries, according to a press release. The Protégé ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Covidien plc (NYSE: COV) today announced nine-month results of the DURABILITY Iliac study and addition of the iliac indication for its EverFlex™ stent at the Vascular ...

Background A 66-year-old man presented to hospital with gross hematuria and clots. He had previously undergone surgical repair of a right iliac artery aneurysm with placement of a vascular prosthesis ...