Expandable metal stents in chronic pancreatitis The use of metal stents (balloon or self-expandable) has been suggested, but experience is limited 7,11. Two cases of recurrent biliary obstruction ...
Stent Procedure Stents that are not coated with drugs are called bare metal stents. As detailed below, it is very important that patients with either type of stent take ...
Treatment
... inflated inside the narrowed part of the artery to widen it. A stent (a flexible metal mesh) is usually inserted into the arter ... » Read on
Treatment
... inside the narrowed part of the artery to open it wide again. A stent (a flexible metal mesh) is usually inserted into the arter ... » Read on
Heart Disease - A Tale of Two Stent Studies The good-stent story above looked at four years of data and compared death rates of drug-coated and bare metal stents. The study found a 1 percent ...
Drug-eluting stents don't up clot risk: study But in a new study of data on 3202 patients who received either bare metalstents or drug-eluting stents, scientists found that the rate of stent thrombosis ...
Stenting May Equal Bypass for Diabetic Heart Patients The type of stent used seemed important. The first group of patients in the trial received bare metal stents, but when drug-eluting (emitting) stents became ...