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Stents are scaffold-like devices used to prop open clogged heart arteries.
Patients May Benefit From New Heart Device Jon Kamp 2011
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Stents are inserted into arteries where they are expanded with balloons.
Patients May Benefit From New Heart Device Jon Kamp 2011
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The Yuma Sun/Associated Press Stents are among devices cited in a government study of pricing that may affect Medicare spending.
Study: Hospitals Overpay for Devices Christopher Weaver 2012
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Stents are mesh-metal tubes used to hold open arteries where plaque is beginning to form.
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Is Tony Danza really joining the cast of "Men With Stents"?
TV for Which No Screen Is Too Small Joe Queenan 2011
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Stents are wire mesh supports that are expanded inside blood vessels so that their metal struts push against the vessels' inside lining.
Dr. Dennis Gottfried: Is The Media Covering Medicine Accurately Dr. Dennis Gottfried 2011
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Stents have been used for years with success to establish and maintain patency in partially occluded coronary arteries and it seemed reasonable that they might be similarly used for the carotid arteries.
Dr. Dennis Gottfried: Is The Media Covering Medicine Accurately Dr. Dennis Gottfried 2011
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Stents are wire mesh supports that are expanded inside blood vessels so that their metal struts push against the vessels' inside lining.
Dr. Dennis Gottfried: Is The Media Covering Medicine Accurately Dr. Dennis Gottfried 2011
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Stents have been used for years with success to establish and maintain patency in partially occluded coronary arteries and it seemed reasonable that they might be similarly used for the carotid arteries.
Dr. Dennis Gottfried: Is The Media Covering Medicine Accurately Dr. Dennis Gottfried 2011
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Stents are mesh-metal tubes used to hold open arteries where plaque is beginning to form.
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