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

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

3.   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.

4.   Doctors frequently insert a mesh tube called a stent to keep the arteries propped open.

5.   During the procedure, doctors often implant tiny tubes called stents to help keep arteries propped open.

6.   In recent years, doctors have often left behind tiny wire coils, called stents, to prop the arteries open.

7.   Stents are tiny scaffolds that prop open arteries after a patient undergoes balloon angioplasty to unclog arteries.

8.   Stents are tiny metal mesh tubes used to prop open arteries.