Sentence examples for vessels open from inspiring English sources

Drug-coated wire-mesh stents can be implanted in the chest to keep blood vessels open.

For example, the concept could be used to create surgical tools that keep blood vessels open during operations.

The patent concerned stents, surgical devices used to hold formerly clogged blood vessels open after heart surgery, and the jury said it based the damages on royalties and profits forgone by Cordis because Boston Scientific sold a competing stent.

For example, nitric oxide, essential to keep blood vessels open, is depleted from cells after a few hours of storage, but some scientists hypothesize that it may be restored rapidly after transfusion.

Nitric oxide, which is essential to keep blood vessels open, is depleted from cells after a few hours of storage, as the article correctly noted, but whether it is "restored rapidly after transfusion" remains to be tested.

Medtronic AVE Inc., a unit of the No. 1 pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic Inc., was found by a federal jury in Delaware to have infringed patents held by the Cordis Corporation unit of Johnson & Johnson for devices known as expandable stents that are used to hold unclogged blood vessels open.

Cuba has said it will lift a ban on Cubans and Cuban Americans entering and leaving the Caribbean island by commercial vessels, opening the way for the cruise operator Carnival to set sail for the country next week.

There the two small British vessels opened up a distant fire on the corvette, as did Hydra to the west against Confiante.

The data show that when compared to saline injected controls, pyrazinamide reduced the number of vessels opening and closing over a 20 min period from 10.2%to3.8%8%.

Next, they insert the stent, a collapsible tube made of metal mesh, which props the vessel open.

Then the balloon is deflated and the catheter and balloon withdrawn, leaving the stent flush against the artery, holding the vessel open.