Sentence examples for stent from inspiring English sources

The Democratic Unionist party leader was admitted to the Ulster hospital in Dundonald on Monday, before being moved to Belfast's Royal Victoria hospital (RVH), where he was fitted with a heart stent.

MicroPort and Lepu Medical, a local rival in the stent market, have both had successful public placements (the former in Hong Kong, the latter in Shenzhen).

IN JULY Babbage, a 40-odd male, got a drug-coated stent in his left anterior descending artery.

The pianist is nowhere in evidence tonight.His daughter stops by the table (my dining companions are regulars) to tell us that he's spending Christmas in the hospital having a stent installed in his heart.

About 18 months to three years after having received a drug-eluting stent, however, some patients developed blood clots, which increased the risk of heart attack and death.

Today many stents have special coatings that gradually release drugs to prevent reclosure of the vessel (restenosis), which can occur years after stent placement.

However, since the blood clotting mechanism is compromised by the use of thrombolytic agents, such as t-PA, there is a substantial incidence of bleeding during and following stent implantation that can be fatal.

This procedure is often followed by the insertion of an expandable stent (a wire mesh tube) that becomes permanently embedded in the wall of the artery to be sure that the vessel stays open.

Acute coronary thrombosis can also be treated by angioplasty, almost always accompanied by insertion of a stent and resulting in rapid and complete restoration of blood flow.

Balloon-tipped catheters can be used to stop active bleeding or to introduce a supportive stent, which is permanently placed inside an artery to stabilize a weakened vessel or to keep a narrowed vessel open.

Even when asked about a health scare this October when doctors found an almost entirely blocked artery to the heart and inserted a stent, Mr Bush evinced total calm.