What Is a Stent?
8. Other Stents
Some of the other stents that are available include vascular stents often placed in the femoral, iliac, or carotid arteries; stent grafts used in endovascular aneurysm repair and to create fistulas for hemodialysis; biliary stents to maintain bile drainage from the pancreas, bile ducts, and gallbladder to the duodenum in conditions such as gallstones or ascending cholangitis; glaucoma drainage stents to reduce the pressure in the eye; and colonic stents, pancreatic stents, and duodenal stents.
Drug-eluting stents are stents that are coated with drugs to reduce the likelihood of narrowing. Clinical trials have shown that this reduces renarrowing cases to lower than 10%, resulting in decreasing the need for repetition of procedures.
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