STENTS: BETTER NEVER THAN LATE.
Opening a blocked artery with balloons and stents can be life saving in the early hours after a heart attack, but a new study concludes that it often does no good if the heart attack occurred three or more days before.The findings should change medical practice, researchers say, and could affect as many as 50,000 patients a year in the United States. They say doctors should stop trying to open arteries in people who had heart attacks days or weeks before and who are stable and free of…See More
