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Stent, Stenting

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(PresseBox) köln, 26.05.2007, Stents are small, flexile mesh-tubes, made from either metal or plastic, which may be inserted in an artery in order to serve a variety of purposes. After a heart attack for example, stents may be used to maintain the lumen of a reopened blood vessel. medicalpicture offers amazing new images concerning this topic (http://bilddatenbank.medicalpicture.de/...).

Moving a stent to its desired location is done via a catheter. The procedure may be performed to maintain the lumen of coronary arteries, the aorta and a variety of different blood vessels within the brain.

Stent © medicalpictureThe so-called cath-lab (short for catheter laboratory) is the small operating room in which the stenting procedure is performed. In case of an ischemic attack of the heart due to a clogged coronary artery for example, a balloon catheter will be used to press the plaque clogging the vessel onto the vessel walls, thus reopening the lumen. The role of the balloon is in fact twofold, one is of course the reopening of the vessel, the other is pressing the stent onto the vessel walls in order to prevent reclosure. Once the stent has been placed snugly onto the inner surface of the artery, the balloon is deflated and the catheter is retracted.

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medicalpicture Gmbh was founded in 2002 in Cologne, Germany. medicalpicture operates the fastest growing, web-based image database with more than 100,000 images from the worlds of health, medicine, pharmacy and science - in addition to photos, high-quality, thematically detailed medical illustrations and microphotographs. The vast majority of image authors nationally and internationally are represented on an exclusive basis. In addition to syndicated image media, medicalpicture offers solutions and services for image databases, image management and image management for the industry.

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