Sentence examples for open blockages from inspiring English sources

Biliary stents are used to open blockages in bile ducts and other parts of the digestive system that form as a result of cancerous tumors.

Plavix is mainly used to prevent formation of clots after stents, or thin tubes, are inserted in coronary arteries as part of the angioplasty procedures that are performed on one million Americans each year to open blockages in the arteries.

Then they take him to a hospital that doesn't perform angioplasty, the procedure that uses tiny balloons and coils of wire called stents to open blockages in the arteries that feed the heart.

Stents are metal sleeves inserted in arteries to keep them propped open after medical procedures to clear blockages.

Stents are metal mesh cylinders inserted in blood vessels to prop them open after blockages have been cleared.

Stents are tiny metal sleeves inserted into arteries to keep them propped open after blockages have been cleared.

Coronary stents, intended to keep arteries open after blockages have been cleared, are implanted in about 1.5 million patients a year, Janssen said.

Cardiac treatment has been revolutionized by angioplasty and stents, meshlike tubes often put in heart arteries to keep them open after blockages have been cleared.

Heart stents are tiny metal-mesh cylinders inserted in coronary arteries as scaffolds to keep them open after blockages have been cleared.

• The Cypher television spot might be mystifyingly vague to viewers who have never heard of stents, which are implanted in blood vessels to prop them open after blockages have been cleared.

Judge Sue L. Robinson ruled that two Medtronic versions of the wire mesh cylinders, which are inserted into blood vessels to keep them open after blockages have been cleared, infringed a patent held by Guidant.