From writing this blog I probably ended up knowing more about stents that I ever thought I would need to know and interventional procedures. According to this video one stent needed to be replaced, as sometimes they can move, jar loose and collapse. 
Know your stent! Now everybody is going to laugh at that statement but there’s good reason for it, ask your doctor about the type of stent you are going to receive and what to expect. Mr. Clinton also had a quadruple by pass a few years ago too, so he has gone the gambit with heart surgery to say the least. Below is why you may want to ask about what type of stent you would be implanted with. They are not all the same.
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How common is this type of procedure, very. El Camino Hospital has 5 surgery rooms dedicated to interventional surgery. The link has a video to learn more.
In most instances with interventional procedures the patient can be up and around in a very short time. The catheter goes up through a vein in your groin and the 3D imaging for accuracy just within the last year has improved tremendously. I learned quit a bit in talking with Dr. Bart Muhs from Yale Medical Center. He told me that sometimes he does full open heart surgery and other times his procedures can be done interventionally with aortic procedures. With a full open heart surgery you are basically done once healed. Not so with a stent, you need to return back to your doctor for check ups.
Interview with Bart E. Muhs, M.D., Yale School of Medicine – Aneurysm Repair Surgery
The stent business has even gone beyond the cardio area and stents are now placed in legs for people who suffer with PAD. Did you know there is a test that can be done before any surgical procedure to check your body for blood clots? Sounds like a good one to me, but all physicians may not perform this test, ask for it. The folks at Cook Medical educated me to that fact during an interview last year relative to stents for PAD. Almost in any cath lab you will find their Vena Cava stents all over the US. When you are putting a stent in a leg it has to be tough and durable as legs move, versus a heart that is by comparison stationary.
Cook Medical Interview Discussing PAD Leg Therapies– Rob Lyles, VP Peripheral Intervention Division
One other note worth a mention is that you also want a drug eluding stent as those are seeing a lot more success without having additional infections or rejection by the body. They have a drug that is used for cancer that lasts for about 6 months or so to help the body during recovery . BD
Stent has proved to be a life saving tube for cardiac patient which is used in angioplasty surgery. The tube is a tiny, expandable, mesh-like tube made of a metal such as stainless steel or cobalt alloy. A cardiac stent is a small tube that is used to widen arteries supplying the heart that have narrowed. Stent for heart is sold by different companies in the world.Stent for heart
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