Stenting WisdomCard™

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  1. American Heart Association: Stent Procedure | What is a Stent americanheart.org - What is a Stent
  2. A.D.A.M. (via MedlinePlus): Stent nlm.nih.gov - Stent
  3. National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: What Is a Stent? nhlbi.nih.gov - What Is a Stent?
  4. YourTotalHealth: Stenting yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com - Stenting
  5. Mayo Clinic: Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting | Coronary Angioplasty and Stenting: Opening Clogged Heart Arteries | Drug-Eluting Stents: Do They Increase Heart Attack Risk? mayoclinic.com - Drug-Eluting Stents: Do They Increase Heart Attack Risk?
  6. Society for Vascular Surgery: Carotid Stenting vascularweb.org - Carotid Stenting
  7. HeartSite: Coronary Stents heartsite.com - Coronary Stents
  8. Wikipedia: Carotid Stenting | Drug-Eluting Stent | Coronary Stent | Prostatic Stent | Ureteric Stent en.wikipedia.org - Ureteric Stent
  9. Answers.com: Ureteral Stenting answers.com - Ureteral Stenting
  10. Comprehensive-kidney-facts.com: Kidney Stent comprehensive-kidney-facts.com - Kidney Stent


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Research Notes on Stenting


In medicine, a stent is a tube that is inserted into a natural conduit of the body to prevent or counteract a disease-induced localized flow constriction. The term may also refer to a tube used to temporarily hold such a natural conduit open to allow access for surgery. ...read more on Wikipedia

Fast Facts:

  • First procedures performed in the mid 1980s; U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved in 1994.1
  • Approximately ninety percent of the time, coronary stents are placed in conjunction with a balloon angioplasty.1
  • Although there are many types of stents, most are comprised of metal or plastic mesh-like material.2
  • Risks of stenting include allergic reaction, blood clot and clogging of the stent.2

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Research Notes References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 YourTotalHealth: About Stenting
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 A.D.A.M. (via MedlinePlus): Stent

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