1.   Another study, known as the ERASER trial, will examine the use of ReoPro with stents, tiny devices used to prop open arteries.

2.   Arterial Vascular makes tiny flexible tubes called stents that are inserted to prop open clogged arteries.

3.   Sales also were strong for the Palmaz-Schatz heart stent, a tiny metal device to prop open arteries that was introduced last year.

4.   Stents are small metal mesh tubes used to hold open cleared arteries.

5.   Such patients had already gone through several bypasses as well as angioplasty, which uses a balloon to help open clogged arteries.

6.   The device would be the biggest advance in stent technology since the tiny wire mesh tubes were first approved to prop open clogged arteries.

7.   The move to sell Schneider Worldwide, which makes stents used to hold open arteries, had been long anticipated.

8.   The new indications allow the drug to be used in conjunction with artery-opening procedures including those with stents, tiny devices used to prop open arteries.

9.   The Palmaz-Schatz stent, a wire mesh device used to prop open clogged arteries, paced the sales increase.

10.   The patients in the study were heart patients undergoing coronary care known as stenting, where tubes are used to prop open clogged arteries.