Roger Ebert

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

American Critic

John McDonnell

When I had the heart attack I had one stent inserted, which was great.

British Politician

Often relates to heart or blood vessel treatment, not just any tube.

Medical Procedure

Considered a technical term used by healthcare professionals.

Advanced Vocabulary

Used specifically when talking about keeping passageways open inside the body.

Treatment Specific

Refers to supporting structures in buildings, not used for small items or furniture.

Architectural Context

Primarily used in construction and engineering, unfamiliar to the general public.

Technical Jargon

Specifically denotes temporary support during construction, not permanent.

Structural Support

 which we said is a pig, so we had to get this pig to have a heart attack. And when you go to the farmyard, you can't easily get pigs to have heart attacks, so we said, well, we're experts in stents. Tonight you'll see some of our invented stents. We said, so we'll put in a stent,

Robert Fischell: TED...

 these lines so if I had to put your cats from where I'm sitting I highly doubt that I would smell them maybe maybe not maybe I would I'm not quite sure the interesting thing though is that you know they're obviously is a stent to them and maybe somebody that's ever I don't know

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 to restore control to the outside world. How cool is that? Now we already know how to travel through the blood vessels. We've been doing it for 40 years, mostly going to the heart. If anyone here today has had a heart attack, there's a pretty good chance you've had a stent.

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 and that opportunity really opens up all sorts of things, from better fuel-efficient cars dealing with great lattice properties with high strength-to-weight ratio, new turbine blades, all sorts of wonderful things. Think about if you need a stent in an emergency situation,

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 by a procedure called an angioplasty. There, doctors thread a wire through the vessel to the obstructed site, and then place a deflated balloon catheter over the wire. When the balloon is inflated, it forces the passageway open again. Sometimes a rigid tube called a stent

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 Cardiologists can reopen the blocked artery by inflating it with a balloon in a procedure called an angioplasty. Frequently, they also insert a metal or polymer stent that will hold the artery open. More extensive blockages might require coronary artery bypass surgery.

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 aeruginosa this is the bacterium that kills people who have cystic fibrosis it kills immune compromised people and it causes effect infections when you get a catheter a stent or a breathing tube and the reason Pseudomonas is so virulent is because of this chemical

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 But zapping a stone with sound doesn't work as well if it's simply too big. So sometimes, more invasive treatments are necessary. A rigid tube called a stent can be placed in the ureter to expand it. Optical fibers can deliver laser pulses to break up the stone.

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 but it needs to be much smaller for the trip there, through your blood vessels. And this stent folds down using an origami pattern, based on a model called the water bomb base. Airbag designers also have the problem of getting flat sheets

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 has applications from the vastness of space to the microscopic world of our cells. Using principles of origami, medical engineers have re-imagined the traditional stent graft,

Stent