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All underwent coronary stenting - where narrow tubes are inserted to combat the narrowing of arteries.
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"I'm going to get more aggressive with exercise and use stenting as a last resort, " Ms. Molnar says.
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The stent uses an alloy designed specifically for coronary stenting, which enables thinner struts and enhanced visibility, the company said.
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Researchers studied 902 heart attack patients who were given angiograms before the blocked artery was opened with balloon angioplasty or stenting.
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To be denied the option of either surgery or stenting is unreasonable.
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By knowing in advance if they were stenting a hot plaque, doctors could recommend other options such as bypass surgery or drug treatment, Dr. Muller says.
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Charles Simonton, chief medical officer of Abbott's vascular division, said that carotid stenting has a similar net outcome in patients to carotid surgery, and therefore should be covered more widely by Medicare.
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Researchers found that at one year after the procedures, death rates were about the same for surgery and stents, reflecting the higher risk of mortality from the open-heart procedure itself about 2% for surgery compared with about 1% for stenting.
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