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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
stent .
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Examples
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Over less than a year of follow-up, 20.5 percent of the stented patients died or had a stroke, compared with 11.5 percent of those receiving medical therapy alone, they added.
Study: 'Brain stents' for stroke patients do more harm than good 2011
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By contrast, only 24% of the patients who were immediately stented required a second operation.
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Once you've worked your magic, stented your arteries, prescribed your cocktail* and gotten the patient out of the hospital, take a page from the surgeon's book: follow them for 3 months or 6 months or whatever interval you're comfortable with to assure that their heart attack has "healed," then discharge them back to primary care; ie, me.
Archive 2008-03-01 1 Dinosaur 2008
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Only truly choked-off arteries were stented, and the patients received only 1.9 stents on average.
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Once you've worked your magic, stented your arteries, prescribed your cocktail* and gotten the patient out of the hospital, take a page from the surgeon's book: follow them for 3 months or 6 months or whatever interval you're comfortable with to assure that their heart attack has "healed," then discharge them back to primary care; ie, me.
Attention Cardiologists: 1 Dinosaur 2008
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This procedure is more than just angioplasty; such patients have now been “stented.”
Balloons, Stents, and Arteries: A Review of the Logic Behind Modern Cardiology - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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I've had attendings tell me "I've known this patient for years, I'd discount her anginal symptoms" and then blanche as the patient gets quintiple-stented.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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Another catheterization found a 90 percent renarrowing in the stented artery.
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Day I went to cuting fassheens [74] & stented 4 a peace in half a day & 12 stakes.
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes Abraham Tomlinson
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"She ain't goin 'to be stented in one single thing; remember that," Andrew told Fanny, with angry emphasis.
The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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