A metal tube put into a coronary artery to hold it open.
Heart stents are a medical implantation made to the heart to increase blood flow. Heart stents are used to prevent a heart attack, and to increase heart capacity.
The coronary stent is a tube placed in the coronary arteries to keep them open and is a treatment for coronary heart disease. It is an intervention to prevent heart attacks and more damage to the heart.
They're usually intended to stay in indefinitely ! The purpose of the stent - is to wide the main arteries or veins in the heart - keeping blood flowing correctly. Once performed, the surgery is intended to be permanent.
To open an artery near the heart
A stent is best described as a tiny metal scaffold that holds open coronary arteries to prevent atherosclerosis and therefore heart attacks (in that artery only). They actually look a little bit like the spring in pens if you take them apart. OM just means (obtuse marginal) branch of the circumflex. The circumflex is a larger artery that wraps around the heart. These are just descriptions of where exactly the stent is placed for future reference.
An angioplasty is the widening of a narrowed blood vessel. A stent is a tube inserted to prevent constriction.
A coronary stent (or cardiac stent) is placed in arteries that supply blood to the heart. The stent is a tube that is designed to keep the arteries open to increase blood flow.
To open an artery near the heart. :)
The coronary stent is a tube placed in the coronary arteries to keep them open and is a treatment for coronary heart disease. It is an intervention to prevent heart attacks and more damage to the heart.
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They're usually intended to stay in indefinitely ! The purpose of the stent - is to wide the main arteries or veins in the heart - keeping blood flowing correctly. Once performed, the surgery is intended to be permanent.
To open an artery near the heart
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It is a mesh tube that is put into the heart's artries you can go to this website to learn more http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/treatment-angioplasty-stents and
Not a wise idea, because smoking is one of the main reasons for stents needing to be placed in the neck...
The ISBN of Operation Dark Heart is 9780312612177.
Operation Dark Heart was created in 2010.
can a stent be cleaned