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- verb Present participle of
reclog .
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Examples
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As many as 40 percent of people who receive older "bare metal" stents experience reclogging of the artery, usually within six months of the surgery.
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As many as 40 percent of people who receive older "bare metal" stents experience reclogging of the artery, usually within six months of the surgery.
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Such coated stents help prevent arteries from reclogging after a stent is implanted.
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Stents are small scaffolds used to prop open blocked blood vessels, and some are coated with a medication that prevents reclogging.
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Boston Scientific has promoted the Liberte as easier to implant than Express and just as good at preventing arteries from reclogging after implantation.
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Models coated with drugs to reduce reclogging, from Boston Scientific Corp., of Natick, Mass., and Johnson & Johnson, of New Brunswick, N.J., account for most of the U.S. market.
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Drug-coated stents are designed to prevent scar tissue from reclogging the artery later and thus reduce the need for patients to return for a repeat operation.
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Taxus is coated with drugs that reduce reclogging and is the top-selling model world-wide, with $1.8 billion in sales last year.
Heart Surgery 2008
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The lucrative, tiny devices are inserted during angioplasty procedures to prop open heart arteries; they use medication to fight reclogging.
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The fanciest, most profitable kind -- those coated with drugs to prevent reclogging -- were used in 88% of stentings as recently as mid-2006.
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