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• n  a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis

• Or it could expand into a stent, a device surgeons use to open blood vessels.
• After the balloon was deflated, the metal mesh of the stent was left in place to keep the artery open.
• A few days later, doctors propped open the dangerously clogged blood vessel with a stent, thereby preventing what could have been a heart attack.

News & Articles

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• Orsiro de BIOTRONIK, le premier stent à élution médicamenteuse hybride de l'industrie, réalise les meilleures ...
  Résultats des critères d'évaluation principaux de l'étude clinique BIOFLOW-II démontrant la non-infériorité du stent à élution médicamenteuse hybride Orsiro de BIOTRONIK par rapport au XIENCE PRIME d'Abbott. ...
  June 13, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Abbott Launches Japanese Stent Trial
  Results will be used to try to win Japan approval of Absorb bioresorbable stent.        
  June 12, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• Abbott Launches Japanese Stent Trial
  Results will be used to try to win Japan approval of Absorb bioresorbable stent.        
  June 12, 2013 - The Motley Fool

Quotes

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• William Hunter in Canada NewsWire (press release)
  We are pleased that the innovative technology of the TAXUS Express2 stent is now available to physicians in Japan, offering them another treatment option with proven outcomes across a broad range of patients,said Dr. William Hunter, President...