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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. 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 ...

4. Stent - Wikipedia

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   Coronary stents are placed during a coronary angioplasty.The most common use for coronary stents is in the coronary arteries, into which a bare-metal stent, a drug-eluting stent, a bioabsorbable stent, a dual-therapy stent (combination of both drug and bioengineered stent), or occasionally a covered stent is inserted.

5. I'm a heart surgeon and heart attack survivor. These are 6 ...

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   Dr. Jeremy London is a heart surgeon and a heart attack survivor. He operates on diseased hearts, but like many people, he ignored his own symptoms of a coronary artery blockage until it became an ...

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

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   The FDA recently approved a heart stent made specifically for infants and young children, a device that could help kids born with certain congenital heart defects avoid a series of open heart ...

7. I'm a cardiologist and I want women to stop doing these 6 ...

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   Say your female parent or sister had a cardiac event such as stroke, heart attack, stent or bypass surgery before 65 — that tells the doctor you have a positive family history. And if you have ...

8. Angioplasty - Wikipedia

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   Relative to surgery, angioplasty is a lower-risk option for the treatment of the conditions for which it is used, but there are unique and potentially dangerous risks and complications associated with angioplasty: Embolization, or the launching of debris into the bloodstream [24]

9. After President Clinton's Surgery, a Primer on Stents - AOL

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   Former President Bill Clinton, 63, who had two stents put into a native coronary artery in his heart on Thursday, was undergoing what's become a common proceudre to clear plaque buildup after ...