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Takeaway. After receiving a stent to treat a narrowed coronary artery, you may be back to your normal activities within a week. But you may have to make some lifestyle changes to maintain healthy ...
A stent is a tiny tube that your doctor can insert into a blocked passageway to keep it open. The stent restores the flow of blood or other fluids, depending on where it’s placed. Stents are ...
Open narrowed arteries. Reduce symptoms, like chest pain. Help treat a heart attack. These types are called coronary stents. Usually made of metal mesh, they’re put into arteries after a ...
Stents are commonly used in the arteries of the heart, also known as the coronary arteries. Stents are used during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). PCI is a procedure conducted to prevent ...
3 min read. A stent is a tiny tube that can play a big role in treating your heart disease. It helps keep your arteries -- the blood vessels that carry blood from your heart to other parts of your ...
A drug-eluting stent, or DES, is a small, metal mesh tube placed in a blocked coronary artery. The metal is coated in medicine and helps reopen your artery and keep it open. Stents are used to ...
A heart stent is a small mesh tube that helps open up a blocked artery to allow for improved blood flow. A surgeon uses a catheter to insert a collapsed stent into a blood vessel (often in your ...
Angioplasty to widen the artery and let more blood flow through and a stent, or small mesh tube, to help keep the artery open. Atherectomy to remove plaque. Bypass surgery to send blood around the ...