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Arterial Stents - Why Biodegradable Stents May Be Better
Stents hold blood vessels open as they heal. Stents made of lactic acid polymers dissolve slowly over the course of time. They are gone when their work is done. These new stents could be solution for a problem caused until now by metal stents, which are used to clear coronary arteries but end up causing problems by becoming sites where clot
Subject
- bioabsorable stent
- lactic acid
- stent
- arterial support
- narrowing arteries
- stenosis
- coronary arteries
- mesh
- Mashup
Type of item
- factual
Subject
- bioabsorable stent
- lactic acid
- stent
- arterial support
- narrowing arteries
- stenosis
- coronary arteries
- mesh
- Mashup
Type of item
- factual
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Issue date
- 2012-12-13
- 2012-12-13
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/data/euscreenXL/768585
Language
- english
- eng
Is part of
- In Good Shape
Providing country
- Germany
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-07-08T14:53:28.993Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-11-10T18:12:47.389Z