At the supermarket,the question can be “Paper or plastic?” Increasingly, when surgeons at Deborah Heart and Lung middle consider a stent to keep a leg artery open to treat peripheral artery disease, and they ponder “Metal or bio-absorbable?” And that’s whether theyve determined a stent is needed at all,after clearing artery blockages with sophisticated atherectomy tools and stretching them with drug-coated balloons to prevent re-narrowing from an overgrowth of scar tissue.
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