Heart Patients May Not Always Need Permanent Stent, New Study Finds
A tiny medicated balloon can clear a blocked heart artery and leave nothing permanent behind, and a new analysis of nearly 8,000 patients found it guards the heart about as well as a traditional metal stent. Across 10 clinical trials, people treated with these drug-coated balloons had the same rates of heart attacks and cardiovascular death as…
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- Health
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- ekta bisht
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- Sunday, 18 October 2026, 10:26 am IST
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