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In medicine, a stent is either an expandable wire form or perforated tube that is inserted into a natural conduit of the body to prevent or counteract a disease-induced localized flow constriction. The most common use of stents is in coronary arteries. They are also widely used in other natural body conduits, such as c... more at Wikipedia
Treatment Success Rate
| Top 5 Communities | ||
| Condition | Members | Success |
| Heart Attack | 184 |
96% |
| Coronary Heart Disease | 134 |
88% |
| Pancreatitis | 1 |
100% |
| Kidney Stones | 2 |
100% |
| Aneurysms | 1 |
100% |
Overall, 93% (328
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Stents Reviews
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Worked but a couple have had to be done a second time,
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Saved my life.
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Ornish diet, daily jogging, vegetarian diet, eastern meditation
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I am still breathing.
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Three
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I feel like a new person...circulation is so good plus I quit smoking
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2 drug eluting stents fitted.
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just had it replaced
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4 stents on left side and 1 on right that did not take.
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5 have been placed in the last four years. The most recent was on March 14th of this year. I also had to have one of the previous stents replaced.
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Hi, I wish you the best of luck with this. I had an angiogram just under two weeks ago. Unfortunately, I was not a candidate for stenting as they di... [More] -
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Hi Mandy I had this done to my right transverse sinus this past December. My vein was severely compressed. Last June I had a lumbar shunt and the sur... [More] -
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Mandy, Good luck, i hope this works for you and some relief comes your way. Mandy aka Buttercup85 has had good luck with stents. Although finding her... [More] -
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Mandy, I've never had stents, but I wanted to say good luck, and that I'm sending my love over the i-waves. You'll be in my thoughts. Seasprite [More] -
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I go in for a cranial angiogram (sp on Wednesday and possiable stents. I was wanddring if anybody has had one. And what the recovery waz like. And th... [More]
