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Overall, the study also showed, stent patients fared just as well during meeting dates and non-meeting dates.
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A few hours later, Drachsler underwent surgery for the installation of a heart stent.
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Why would the absence of interventional cardiologists affect patients who did not undergo artery-opening angioplasty or get stents to hold arteries open?
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The difference accounted for thousands of lives saved and couldn't be explained by the number of emergency stents patients received.
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But everything, from a handbag to a heart stent, needs design.
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Back home, a cardiologist found a blockage and put a stent in place.
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In angioplasty, a doctor inflates a thin balloon in an artery to widen it, leaving a stent in place to prop the blood vessel open.
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There, the victim was sent to the catheterization laboratory for evaluation and fitted with a stent, Mehling said.
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medical : a metal or plastic tube that is put in a blood vessel to keep it open
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