‘Unbelievable’: Heart Stents Fail to Ease Chest Pain

By News on the Net —— Bio and Archives November 4, 2017

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A procedure used to relieve chest pain in hundreds of thousands of heart patients each year is useless for many of them, researchers reported on Wednesday. Their study focused on the insertion of stents, tiny wire cages, to open blocked arteries. The devices are lifesaving when used to open arteries in patients in the throes of a heart attack. -- More...