BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) — Manatee Memorial Hospital says it is the first hospital in Southwest Florida to use a newly FDA-approved balloon device designed to treat a recurring narrowing in some patients’ heart arteries.
The SELUTION SLR Drug-Eluting Balloon is intended for people whose coronary artery has narrowed inside a previously placed stent, according to the hospital. Stents are small mesh tubes used to help keep an artery open…