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2. Coronary stent - Wikipedia

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   For patients undergoing PCI after a heart attack extended stays are very dependent on the degree of damage caused by the event. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] As a stent/DES is a medical device, patients are given a 'medical device card' with information on the implanted DES and a medical device serial number; this is important and is useful in future potential ...

3. Reperfusion therapy - Wikipedia

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   Reperfusion therapy is a medical treatment to restore blood flow, either through or around, blocked arteries, typically after a heart attack (myocardial infarction (MI)). Reperfusion therapy includes drugs and surgery. The drugs are thrombolytics and fibrinolytics used in a process called thrombolysis.

4. For some cardiac patients with stents, long-term aspirin ...

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   “The public should know that aspirin remains an important treatment for a heart attack, and in these studies, it was an essential therapy in the 3 months after receiving the stent,” Dr. Harlan ...

5. Percutaneous coronary intervention - Wikipedia

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   The most serious risks are death, stroke, ventricular fibrillation (non-sustained ventricular tachycardia is common), myocardial infarction (heart attack, MI), and aortic dissection. 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 ...

6. 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.

7. Atherosclerosis: What Men Need to Know About Plaque ... - AOL

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   Percutaneous coronary intervention (coronary angioplasty with stent placement): A percutaneous coronary intervention involves opening up a narrowed artery in your heart with a thin tube called a ...

8. Restenosis - Wikipedia

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   Symptoms may also suggest or signal restenosis, but this should be confirmed by imaging. For instance, a coronary stent patient who develops restenosis may experience recurrent chest pain or have a minor or major heart attack (myocardial infarction), though they may not report it. This is why it is important that a patient comply with follow-up ...

9. Cardiologist Details His Own Heart Attack Symptoms ...

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   Sudden heart attack. Stent didn't work. Mentor recommended the cardiologist undergo a rare bypass surgery where the heart still pumps. Uses arteries not veins.