Health Blog Primer: What’s a Stent?
February 11th, 2010 admin
Bill Clinton was admitted to the hospital for chest pain today and had two stents placed in one of the arteries around his heart. Here’s what that means: A stent is a wire mesh tube that’s used to prop open an artery. That’s a stent in the picture. Stents are often used for patients with unstable angina — sudden chest pain that can be a prelude to a heart attack. In a typical procedure, doctors start by making a small incision in the patient’s groin, then threading a catheter through the incision…
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