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2. Coronary stent - Wikipedia

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   A coronary stent is a tube-shaped device placed in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart, to keep the arteries open in patients suffering from coronary heart disease. The vast majority of stents used in modern interventional cardiology are drug-eluting stents (DES). They are used in a medical procedure called percutaneous ...

3. Stent - Wikipedia

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   A stent graft or covered stent is type of vascular stent with a fabric coating that creates a contained tube but is expandable like a bare metal stent. Covered stents are used in endovascular surgical procedures such as endovascular aneurysm repair. Stent grafts are also used to treat stenoses in vascular grafts and fistulas used for hemodialysis.

4. Percutaneous coronary intervention - Wikipedia

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   A heart attack during or shortly after the procedure occurs in 0.3% of cases; this may require emergency coronary artery bypass surgery. [13] Heart muscle injury characterized by elevated levels of CK-MB, troponin I, and troponin T may occur in up to 30% of all PCI procedures. Elevated enzymes have been associated with later clinical outcomes ...

5. 8 Common Cardiovascular Diseases for Men & How to Prevent Them

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   Coronary angioplasty surgery. Stent procedure. Coronary artery bypass surgery. Heart transplant. Radiofrequency ablation. When heart arrest occurs outside of a hospital, the main treatment is a ...

6. New stents for infants mean kids could avoid series of open ...

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   The FDA approved the Minima stent to treat two heart conditions: coarctation, or narrowing of the aorta, which is the largest blood vessel in the body; and stenosis, or narrowing and hardening, of ...

7. What Is Heart Disease? Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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   Surgery. Heart surgery may be performed during a heart attack or if other treatment methods don’t work. Some surgeries, like coronary artery bypass grafting, which reroutes blood flow, are major ...