Dr. Wes

After George W. Bush's recent controvertial stent placement, news organizations were hot to jump on the media buzz created by a former P...

He arrived at the emergency room diaphoretic, hypotensive, and with substernal chest pressure.  The patient was brought immediately to an em...

Stephen L Snyder, attorney for Dr. Mark Midei, comments on the US Senate's Finance Committee's staff report (4.4 MB pdf file) of s...

Medicine is a team sport. No single doctor can do what they do without tons of help from nurses, technicians, clerical staff, and yes, even...

Dr. Ted Feldman, Director of Interventional Cardiology at NorthShore University HealthSystem and one of the lead authors of the recently pub...

Just show him an angioplasty with a little Bezold-Jarisch reflex and a brief bout of ventricular fibrillation then watch him bail into the...

As expected, Medtronic's Endeavor drug-eluting stent was approved by the FDA today. Looks like more competition has just arrived for th...

Now it's Johnson and Johnson's turn: starting on Thanksgiving Day, coronary stent (specifically Cypher stent ) advertisements began...

If a feel-good PR piece for interventional cardiologists, Adolph Bachman, the first angioplasty recipient, was introduced at the Transcathet...

I heard a new term related to coronary stents today: "shrinkage." Unlike the manly "shrinkage" of the Seinfeld show , i...

Showing an ever-growing presence in the post-market medical device arena, it now appears that the FDA is going after biliary stent manufactu...

The Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is considering limiting reimbursement strategy for drug-eluting stents that are placed ...

And just when the cardiovascular surgeons thought they might wrestle back the coronary revascularization business, a new completely bioabsor...

From MedPageToday : The FDA's drug-eluting stent safety panel recommended today that the labels of Cypher (sirolimus-eluting) and Taxus ...

There seems to be a lot of gnashing of teeth about what to recommend for people who have received drug-eluting stents. Should patients cont...

From the Chicago Tribune : The absorbable stent is made of polylactic acid, which is used in other medical products such as sutures used to ...

If we know that sterile technique is important to reduce infection in the cardiac electrophysiology laboratory when implanting foreign bodie...