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If your artery is fulled with plaque and a cardiologist gives you a stent, can that plaque still grow and break the stent?
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It can still grow: But would not break the stent.
Answered 4/18/2013
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NO: No a plaque will not grow. A clot could form in the area. Less likely if stent is elutes a drug or takes Plavix (clopidogrel) or a blood thinner, and stops smoking.
Answered 6/30/2014
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No: So that particular plaque will not grow, neither it will "break" the stent. There are complications that can happen to the stent - thrombosis or it can get stenosed. Which now a days is avoided by medications - but nothing is full proof. in coronary artery disease you can have widespread plaques - at areas other than the site of intervention, which can still grow and break.
Answered 9/29/2016
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