metal stent

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metal
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈmet.əl/us
/ˈmet̬.əl/
a chemical element, such as iron or gold, or a mixture of such elements, such as steel, that is generally hard and strong, and through which electricity and heat ...
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stent
noun[C]
uk
/stent/us
/stent/
a long thin object put inside a tube in the body, for example a blood vessel, so that its walls stay firm or so that body fluids can flow easily ...
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(Definition ofmetalandstentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A smaller need for repeated procedures exists after baremetalstentand even more so after drug-eluting stent placement than after percutaneous intervention without stent placement.
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The physician expands the balloon which deforms themetalstentto its expanded size.
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A self-expandingmetalstentis permanently deployed within the dominant transverse sinus across the stenosis under general anaesthesia.
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Surgery seems to provide a longer-lasting effect than percutaneous interventions with bare metal stents or without stents.
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Surgery seems to provide a longerlasting effect than percutaneous interventions with bare metal stents or without stents.
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Additionally, self expanding metal stents can be placed across malignant biliary strictures to allow palliative drainage.
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Like metal stents, placement of a bioresorbable stent will restore blood flow and support the vessel through the healing process.
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Esophageal self expandable metal stents fort the palliation of dysphagia due to lung cancer.
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These coated stents were found to have a lower incidence of subacute thrombosis than bare metal stents.
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Further data published over the following year had conflicting results, and it was unclear whether stent thrombosis was truly higher when compared to bare metal stents.
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A 2007 study showed no difference in the quality of palliation between plastic and metal stents, but a novel polyester mesh stent caused more complications, especially migration.
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He was 10 years old when an earlier transplanted trachea (with metal stents) started to cut into his aorta, the main blood vessel coming out of his heart.
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