Stents are used in angioplasty, a procedure in which a balloon is inserted into a heart artery via a catheter and used to reopen it, alleviating chest pain, allowing patients to walk and treating heart attacks.
Of the patients who received chelation, 27% had one of the following: a death, a stroke, a heart attack, a stent procedure to open a heart artery, or a hospitalization for chest pain.
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Interstate 84 east of Portland, a major artery eastward, was closed by a mudslide, said Lt.
This is usually accomplished by inflating a balloon in the artery, then implanting a stent to keep the artery open.
Nissen's studies use a technique called intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), which measures the volume of plaque in a coronary artery using an ultrasound probe inserted through a catheter.
Atlantic Avenue, the city's main drag, has been reduced from a thriving artery that pumps cars toward glitz and glamour to a haven for pawn shops, check cashers, and outlet stores.
Four doctors in Texas concluded that Max Shatto, born Maksim Kuzmin, had died accidentally from a torn artery in his abdomen and had bruises consistent with injuring himself, a statement said.
AstraZeneca used both techniques to tout its cholesterol drug Crestor as a potent artery unclogger.
Prasugrel was only tested in patients undergoing angioplasty, a procedure in which a balloon is snaked into a clogged artery.
The most recent was after last November's election, and he underwent angioplasty treatment to open a clogged artery in March.
The 55-year-old left hospital over the weekend following an angioplasty - a process in which a coronary artery is widened - on Friday.
"The A465 is a crucial artery of our transport network and the principal road link between west Wales and the Midlands, " he said.
Cheney had just undergone a surgical procedure to insert a stent, a steel mesh cylinder that expands to pry open a clogged artery.
In 2004 Collier botched the methodology for measuring results of carotid endarterectomy (in which plaque is removed from a major artery in the neck).
Professor Denis Noble from Oxford University, one of the pioneer's of the project, says heart attacks are triggered by a single artery getting blocked.
Transport Minister Carl Sargeant called it "a crucial artery of our transport network and the principal road link between west Wales and the Midlands".
The broad storm hit during the evening rush hour, causing havoc on Interstate 40, a major artery connecting suburbs east and west of the city.
It was his first win since his 2012 season was cut short in July by surgery to replace a damaged artery in his right shoulder.
But it compares Vytorin with placebo, so it could just show the benefit of Zocor, and is in an odd population: people with a heart artery defect.
Mr McCann - who had been walking to meet two friends at the time - died after suffering a number of injuries including a major artery being torn.
Cardiologists trying to read between the lines of the press releases assume his grafts must be holding up, because the stent was not placed in a bypassed artery.
According to preliminary results of a post-mortem examination released this month, the child died accidentally from a torn artery in his abdomen and had bruises consistent with injuring himself.
One big hope for Lilly and Sankyo is that prasugrel has been tested entirely in angioplasty, a procedure in which a balloon is used to open a clogged artery.
In three separate procedures, Dr. Shishehbor used a balloon embedded with a wire that cuts through calcified plaque and implanted two stents to prop open a small artery in Mr. Swartz's foot.
Researchers from Hammersmith and Ealing Hospitals compared the way cells in a major artery function in 26 healthy people of Indian origin and 18 white men aged 35-60 who had no heart disease.
The federal government's new wariness about offshore drilling in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is dimming what may be the best hope for extending the life of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a crucial artery supplying one-quarter of the West Coast's oil.
Friday's broad storm in Oklahoma hit during the evening rush hour and stuck around, causing havoc on Interstate 40, a major artery connecting suburbs east and west of the city, and dropping so much rain on the area that streets were flooded to a depth of 4 feet.
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From 1999 through 2001, two of the 175 patients on whom Isom performed a simple coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) died, a 1.14 percent mortality rate, according to figures recently released by the New York State Department of Health.
C-reactive protein, a measure of artery inflammation, was lowered about twice as much in the Lipitor studies than in A to Z.
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