Betekenis van:
stent

stent
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis

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    Voorbeeldzinnen

    1. There are three main players in the carotid stent market: J & J, Guidant and Boston Scientific.
    2. There are three main players in the carotid stent market: J & J, Guidant and Boston Scientific. Together they account for 83 to 96 % of the market.
    3. Numerically controlled stent crimping machine comprising a base, a pneumatic crimp head and a motorised product positioning mechanism (V-block) to crimp a stent onto the balloon of a catheter using radial pressure in the manufacture of drug eluting stents [1]
    4. In this area the main device is the stent, a small expandable wire tube that is placed in an occluded coronary artery to remove the plaque and support the walls of the vessel, thus enabling the blood to flow properly.
    5. Moreover, despite the fact that BMS and DES share the same stent structure and delivery system, a number of components are specifically important to a coronary DES (the drug, drug dosage and rate of release, and polymer coatings).