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When does someone need heart stents?
The coronary stent is a tube placed in the coronary arteries to keep them open and is a treatment for coronary heart disease. It is an intervention to prevent heart attacks and more damage to the heart.
How long can a heart stent stay in?
They're usually intended to stay in indefinitely ! The purpose of the stent - is to wide the main arteries or veins in the heart - keeping blood flowing correctly. Once performed, the surgery is intended to be permanent.
What is the use of a coronary stent?
To open an artery near the heart
What is a stent in a OM branch of the circumflex coronary artery?
A stent is best described as a tiny metal scaffold that holds open coronary arteries to prevent atherosclerosis and therefore heart attacks (in that artery only). They actually look a little bit like the spring in pens if you take them apart. OM just means (obtuse marginal) branch of the circumflex. The circumflex is a larger artery that wraps around the heart. These are just descriptions of where exactly the stent is placed for future reference.
What is the surgical widening of a constricted heart valve called?
An angioplasty is the widening of a narrowed blood vessel. A stent is a tube inserted to prevent constriction.
