How to Use stent in a Sentence

stent

noun
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  • The number of stents needed depends on the size of the clog.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The solution was a stent, a tube the width of a toothpick.
    — Kurt Newman, STAT, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The stent is a small wire mesh tube that then is propped inside to keep the artery open.
    — Lauran Neergaard, Twin Cities, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The device is then deployed, which acts like a stent to divert blood away from the aneurysm.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Surgeons had to quickly implant a graft and a stent to shore it up.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 5 May 2022
  • The worst-case scenario was believed to be the insertion of a stent and an overnight stay.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 9 July 2021
  • She's since had three procedures and five stents put in her heart.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Once in place, the balloon is inflated to open the artery and position the stent.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The stents will be extremely helpful in terms of blood flow.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
  • One of the sheaths carries a stent graft that surgeons can place inside the aorta.
    — Trihealth Dailyhealthwire, Cincinnati.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • In two months, it will be removed and replaced with a stent to keep her blood flowing.
    — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The next day, Lovely, 54, was in emergency surgery to remove a clot from his heart and to have a stent put in.
    — Richard Obert, azcentral, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The research didn't address use of stents to save lives of heart attack patients.
    — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Minutes later, the stent failed, filling with plaque after the doctor left the cath lab.
    — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Doctors put a stent in her heart in 2007 and Simmons went back to her active lifestyle.
    — Sarah Swetlik | Sswetlik@al.com, al, 28 Feb. 2023
  • And that was basically a stent going up into the brain to pull out a blood clot.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Luckily, the cardiologist was able to clean out the clot and place a stent in my artery.
    — Robin Oliveira, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
  • The flow-reversal system requires the surgeon to clamp the carotid artery in-between the heart and the narrow spot where the stent is to be installed.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017
  • But here, a catheter fitted with the NIRS system called out the culprit in real time, during treatment to put in a stent.
    — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2014
  • But everything, from a handbag to a heart stent, needs design.
    — Fortune, 1 Mar. 2018
  • As the group dispersed, Steven Peters, the neurologist, glanced down at the clot, retrieved from the stent and resting on a piece of bloody gauze.
    — Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Doctors placed a stent in her carotid artery hoping to prevent future strokes.
    — Ann Neumann, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • At the same time, the doctor found a massive kidney stone, which was the result of the endometriosis blocking my ureter, so a stent had to be put in.
    — Essence, 14 Mar. 2019
  • Part of her treatment included the insertion of a bile duct stent.
    — CBS News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Similar coatings could make stents, catheters, and IV lines safer.
    — Sarah Zhang, WIRED, 20 July 2016
  • My right coronary artery was 100% blocked, and a drug-eluting stent was inserted.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2022
  • In an artery that’s completely blocked, the cardiologist places a stent, a wire mesh that holds the artery open and keeps blood flowing to the heart.
    — Jeanne Erdmann, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2020
  • Crosby has Type 2 diabetes and eight stents in his heart, and the famous Custer mustache and mane of hair are a billowy white.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
  • Metal mesh stents were designed to prop vessels open and later improved with drug coatings to keep them open.
    — Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
  • Doctors tried to use lifestyle changes and statins to reverse the plaque buildup but finally resorted to surgery, opening three of Nicholls’ arteries with stents.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 18 June 2024

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