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Have celiac artery stent. was on plavix 6 months. now on only baby aspirin. is there a high risk it will need replacing in years to come?

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Dr. Stuart Hickerson answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Stent: Clinical research study From the New England Society for Vascular Surgery Mes enteric stinting for chronic mes-enteric ischemia Presented at the Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, Whitefield, NH, September 19, 2004. Older article, but this showed a 50 % stent occlusion within months after procedure. At 6 months the occlusion rate was 10 %.

Answered 6/15/2019

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