Doctors used a catheter and placed two mesh tubes, called stents, into a blocked artery to help keep it open.

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The artery is then propped open with a metal mesh tube called a stent.

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Working with local net-makers, Devon's beam-trawler fishermen voluntarily trialled their own designs, stitching the net panels together in a different way to allow the mesh to stay open, thereby letting smaller fish escape.

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Stents are tiny metal mesh tubes designed to hold open clogged arteries, and they have revolutionized cardiac treatment within the last decade.

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