11. Those are the tiny metal scaffold-like devices that are used to hold open arteries that have been unclogged by angioplasty. 12. A stent is a scaffold-like device that doctors thread up into an artery to prop open artery walls. 13. Angioplasty uses tiny balloons to squeeze open clogged arteries in the heart. 14. It said they also would install a stent, a device used to hold open arteries. 15. Many patients immediately undergo angioplasty, which uses tiny balloons to squeeze open clogged arteries in the heart. 16. Stents are tiny scaffolds that prop open arteries after a patient undergoes balloon angioplasty to unclog arteries. 17. Stents are tiny metal mesh tubes used to prop open arteries. 18. The researcher said the material could be used to make vascular stents, devices that hold open blocked arteries to allow easy blood flow. 19. The stent put into Cheney is a scaffold-like device that doctors thread up into an artery to prop open artery walls. |