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New Horizons in Cardiac Stent Manufacturing

Eric Belski
Laser Applications Laboratory Manager

Since the early 1990s, a procedure to widen cardiology patients’ blocked or narrowed arteries—percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)—has used metal stents. These bare metal stents have proven to be particularly useful in addressing elastic compression that reduced efficacy of traditional balloon devices for maintaining desired arterial widening.