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  2. Drug-eluting stent - Wikipedia

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    A drug-eluting stent (DES) is a small mesh tube that is placed in the arteries to keep them open in the treatment of vascular disease.The stent slowly releases a drug to block cell proliferation (a biological process of cell growth and division), thus preventing the arterial narrowing that can occur after stent implantation.

  3. Ticlopidine - Wikipedia

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    Ticlopidine, sold under the brand name Ticlid, is a medication used to reduce the risk of thrombotic strokes. [1] It is an antiplatelet drug in the thienopyridine family which is an adenosine diphosphate (ADP) receptor inhibitor. Research initially showed that it was useful for preventing strokes and coronary stent occlusions.

  4. Percutaneous coronary intervention - Wikipedia

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    Older bare-metal stents (BMS) provide a mechanical framework that holds the artery wall open, preventing stenosis, or narrowing, of coronary arteries. Newer drug-eluting stents (DES) are traditional stents with a polymer coating containing drugs that prevent cell proliferation. The antiproliferative drugs are released slowly over time to help ...

  5. Stents no better than drugs for many heart patients -U.S. study

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    Many patients with severe but stable heart disease who routinely undergo invasive procedures to clear and prop open clogged arteries would do as well by just taking medications and making ...

  6. Patent ductus arteriosus - Wikipedia

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    Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a medical condition in which the ductus arteriosus fails to close after birth: this allows a portion of oxygenated blood from the left heart to flow back to the lungs from the aorta, which has a higher blood pressure, to the pulmonary artery, which has a lower blood pressure.

  7. Mom, 41, with cancer was told she needed a double lung ...

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    To address the blockages in the liver’s blood vessels, Minton received a stent to keep them open. “The it was manageable and livable for the next 10 years,” she says.

  8. Coronary stent - Wikipedia

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    Coronary artery stents, typically a metal framework, can be placed inside the artery to help keep it open. However, as the stent is a foreign object (not native to the body), it incites an immune response. This may cause scar tissue (cell proliferation) to rapidly grow over the stent and cause a neointimal hyperplasia.

  9. 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 ...