Assertion: stent | /r/HasProperty | small mesh tube
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text: A stent is a small mesh tube that holds open passages in the body, such as weak or narrow arteries.
text: Stents are small mesh tubes inserted to keep arteries open after a procedure called angioplasty (percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI).
text: A stent is a small mesh tube made of either stainless steel or cobalt chromium alloys that is placed by a catheter into a narrowed (blocked) coronary artery.
text: A stent is a small mesh tube that is placed inside a narrow or weak blood vessel.
text: A stent is a small mesh tube made of metal that helps keep your artery open.
text: A stent is a small mesh tube inserted into an artery that has been narrowed by plaque build-up.
text: If your doctor needs to put a stent (small mesh tube) in your artery, another tube with a balloon will be threaded through your artery.
text: Stents are small mesh tubes that essentially prop open plaque-narrowed arteries.