Definition of Stent

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Stent

The term 'Stent' as it applies to the area of hospitals can be defined as 'A small wire tube inserted in a blood vessel by a catheter to hold open a blocked blood vessel. One of several procedures to open a blocked blood vessel called a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)'.

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