Stents may reduce heart attacks by delivering downstream medication

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 11:31 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic have discovered that cardiac patients receiving medicated stents -- a procedure that occurs often when blood vessels are blocked -- have a lower likelihood of suffering heart attacks or developing new blockages in the vessel downstream from the stent.

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