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What are in urinary stents?

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What is the proper spelling of stents?

Stents.


Can you defribrillate with stents?

yes


How many cardiac stents can a person have?

I have had 32 stents put in in the last 7 years


What is the average number of stents per patient?

a person could potentially receive 10-15 or even more stents even under reasonable and appropriate care


What is the purpose of ureteral stents?

Following balloon dilation or incision of ureteral strictures, placement of stents maintains the functionality of the ureters. Stents may also be used in the presence of kidney stones to manipulate or prevent stone migration prior to treatment.


What is the meaning of stets as related to the heart?

It is "Stents" and not stets. Stents are small, metallic, porous cylindrical structures that are placed within a blood vessel to prevent re-narrowing of the blood vessel due to chloesterol deposition. Usually these stents are placed after a "ballon angioplasty", a medical surgery to clean the deposited cholesterol plaques in the blood vessels (coronary arteries), to prevent re-narrowing or furhter deposition of chlolesterol that may block the coronary arteries and may lead to Angina or heart attack. In some cases these stents may also be coated with drugs such stents are called as drug eluting stents.


Can a person with heart problems and stents take aspirin while taking extra strength Tylenol and having stents?

Are aspirin and acetaminophen the same thing


If medicated stents were placed in heart valve in July and suffered chest pain and tightness could this be from stents?

Probabably not, it may be caused by something else, or something related, but the best thing to do is to check with your doctor.


How long do cardiac stents last?

Coronary stents last forever and will never be removed. However, 10-20% of patients may develop retenosis, or blockage in he stent, which would require another procedure to clear them out. For this reason it is very important for patients who have been treated with Stents to take Plavix and Aspirin as prescribed by their doctor until told otherwise.


How long do cardiac stents usually last?

Coronary stents last forever and will never be removed. However, 10-20% of patients may develop retenosis, or blockage in he stent, which would require another procedure to clear them out. For this reason it is very important for patients who have been treated with Stents to take Plavix and Aspirin as prescribed by their doctor until told otherwise.


What is a stent in a heart operation?

A metal tube put into a coronary artery to hold it open.


What is a sentence for urinary?

The urinary bladder of a person is what controls the urinary system. It is the sentence using the word urinary.