Another possibly effective way to release the blade from the stent strunt is reinflating and deflating the balloon with a slight back-and-forth vibration.
Expandable metal stent placement was the most effective therapy for tracheostenosis induced by nodular goiter.Patients with tracheostomy cannula placement were at high risk of severe infection.
To explore the clinical effect and significance of silicone coated metallic esophageal stent to treat postoperative anastomotic fistula due to gastroesophagostomy.
Ni-Ti shape memory alloy stent is convenient and feasible in treating postoperative urethral stricture of hypospadia, and it has higher safety, small wound and definite curative effect.
Another procedure is a percutaneous coronary intervention, where a tiny catheter is used to place a stent in the coronary artery to physically open up a blood vessel.
In most cases, doctors treat the problem by widening the artery with a mechanical device called a stent, inserted at the end of a long thin wire-like catheter.