: a short narrow metal or plastic tube often in the form of a mesh that is inserted into the lumen of an anatomical vessel (such as an artery or a bile duct) especially to keep a previously blocked passageway open
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The company has reported the benefits of deploying Impella devices in nonemergency procedures where doctors place stents, or tiny metal tubes, to open vessels near the heart.
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Christina Jewett, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
The medical team subsequently discovered an 80 percent artery blockage — this time caused by cholesterol — and inserted another stent in her heart to open the blockage after she was rushed to the cardiac catheterization lab.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024
For example, a Lown Institute analysis of Medicare data named the hospitals most likely to unnecessarily implant coronary stents, a procedure whose risks include infection, stroke and even kidney damage.
—Michael L. Millenson, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
And that was basically a stent going up into the brain to pull out a blood clot.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024
In vitro fertilization, stents and recombinant DNA human insulin were still years away.
—Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
Plus, the system that Medicare and other health plans use to pay doctors generally places more value on doing procedures like replacing a knee or inserting a stent than on delivering the whole-person, long-term health care management that primary care physicians provide.
—Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
Treatments include widening the arteries with stents and balloons and clearing plaque from vessel walls with a laser or bladed catheter, also known as an atherectomy.
—Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2023
McGuckin also allegedly told Levine to treat patients’ vessels with inflatable balloons and implant stents without a medical need.
—Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2023
Christina Jewett, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
The medical team subsequently discovered an 80 percent artery blockage — this time caused by cholesterol — and inserted another stent in her heart to open the blockage after she was rushed to the cardiac catheterization lab.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024
For example, a Lown Institute analysis of Medicare data named the hospitals most likely to unnecessarily implant coronary stents, a procedure whose risks include infection, stroke and even kidney damage.
—Michael L. Millenson, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
And that was basically a stent going up into the brain to pull out a blood clot.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024
In vitro fertilization, stents and recombinant DNA human insulin were still years away.
—Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
Plus, the system that Medicare and other health plans use to pay doctors generally places more value on doing procedures like replacing a knee or inserting a stent than on delivering the whole-person, long-term health care management that primary care physicians provide.
—Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
Treatments include widening the arteries with stents and balloons and clearing plaque from vessel walls with a laser or bladed catheter, also known as an atherectomy.
—Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2023
McGuckin also allegedly told Levine to treat patients’ vessels with inflatable balloons and implant stents without a medical need.
—Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2023
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stent
noun
variants
also stint
1
: a mold formed from a resinous compound and used for holding a surgical graft in place
also
: something (as a pad of gauze immobilized by sutures) used like a stent
2
: a short narrow metal or plastic tube often in the form of a mesh that is inserted into the lumen of an anatomical vessel (as an artery or bile duct) especially to keep a previously blocked passageway open
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