why blood vessels get blocked
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Heart Stents: Tools for Treating Blocked Blood Vessels
11/04/2014
If you hold a stent in the palm of your hand, it doesn’t look all that different from a spring in a retractable ink pen. At a glance, the apparent simplicity of a stent belies the decades of engineering and research studies that have contributed to its development. Without stents, angioplasty — a procedure to clear blocked arteries and stop a heart attack or improve heart disease symptoms — would not be the success story that it is today. Stents play a crucial, long-term role in enabling oxygen-rich blood to flow to the heart muscle.
11/04/2014
If you hold a stent in the palm of your hand, it doesn’t look all that different from a spring in a retractable ink pen. At a glance, the apparent simplicity of a stent belies the decades of engineering and research studies that have contributed to its development. Without stents, angioplasty — a procedure to clear blocked arteries and stop a heart attack or improve heart disease symptoms — would not be the success story that it is today. Stents play a crucial, long-term role in enabling oxygen-rich blood to flow to the heart muscle.
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