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My grandmother was told she needs a stent. what do we have to do to get ready? are there different types of stents?
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Cardiac stent?: I am taking this as a cardiac stent. This means she has a narrowing of a coronary artery decreasing blood delivery to an area of heart muscle. THe stent is a coil like "tunnel" that will hold open the area of narrowing. The older stents can clot about 20% of the time newer stents have a drug that helps prevent this but requires her to be on "blood thinners" a year or more ask cardiologist which
Answered 5/16/2014
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Stent: A stent is a method of opening up a blocked artery. Ther are many different types of stent but the procedure is simple and should cause no problem and you do not have to prepare for this
Answered 5/16/2014
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