A stent is a small tube that doctors can place in a blocked artery to help restore healthy blood flow. In this article, learn more about the procedure, possible risks, and what to expect.

Angioplasty and stent placement is a procedure that’s used to help open narrow or blocked arteries. Learn more about this minimally invasive procedure.

Bypass Better Than Stent Use for Blocked Artery. By ABC News. March 23, 2008, 11:16 PM.

For years, the usual protocol in patients with blocked arteries has been for doctors to perform angioplasty, inserting a tiny mesh tube known as a stent to keep the artery open.

Feb. 28, 2012— -- Inserting stents to open a blocked artery is a common way to treat coronary artery disease.But increasing evidence suggests the procedure is not as beneficial as patients ...

NEWARK -- Implanting carotid artery-widening stents can prevent a stroke as safely and successfully as performing surgery, according to the initial findings of a landmark study launched in New ...

The stent, a small metal wire tube used to prop open blocked arteries, is the first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating heart disease patients who have diabetes.

By clinical guidelines, an artery should be clogged at least 70 percent before a stent should be placed, Resar said. “A 50 percent blockage doesn’t need to be stented,” he said.

Stents aren't cheap, either: The devices and their insertion them costs from $11,000 to $41,000 at hospitals in the United States. The study was published online Nov. 2 in The Lancet medical ...

New Artery Stents Raise Safety Concerns. December 5, 2006. By Rob Stein.

If the stent injures the blood vessels, it can cause the smooth muscle cells of the arteries to proliferate and try to patch up the damage. This inflammatory response can narrow the artery again ...