1. No dilatation was performed before or after insertion of the metal mesh stent whose complete expansion is spontaneously achieved after five days. 2. A metallic mesh stent was inserted inside the artery at that time to help hold the walls back. 3. He suffered a minor heart attack during the recount that followed the presidential election, and doctors installed a wire mesh stent to keep a clogged coronary artery open. 4. A cardiac catherization at the hospital Monday afternoon found a renarrowing of an artery that had been propped open by a wire mesh stent last November. 5. A wire mesh stent was inserted to help reinforce the reopened artery. |