🩺 A tube for vessels 🩺 To insert a tube

to stent

1 4.0

To place a small mesh tube inside a blood vessel to keep it open

verb
/stɛnt/

Specialized

: colocar un stent

Further, elective inpatient procedures, use of DESs, and patients at high risk were each associated with significant reductions in incremental risk when noncardiac surgery was done six months after stenting compared with earlier.

Examples

During the operation, they stented the affected area to ensure it would remain open and functional.
Should the carotid stenosis be stented?

Academic text (2007)
A problem was detected after referral, and first his right and then his left femoral artery was stented.

Academic text (2012)
It confirms that the risk for adverse cardiac events remains elevated between 6 weeks and 6 months after stenting.

Academic text (2015)
After the diagnosis, the doctor decided to stent the narrowed artery to improve blood flow.
The surgeons stented the patient's blocked vessel during the procedure to prevent further complications.

Antonyms

to remove

∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

How Permanent

transplant

Specialized

22 3.7

implant

Specialized

365 5.6

prosthesis

Specialized

14 6.0

to stent

Specialized

1 4.0

catheter

Specialized

64 7.4

Surface Forms

stent infinitive

stented past

stented past participle

stenting present participle

stents third person singular

Etymology

Stent as a verb comes from the same name and idea: to 'stent' is to put in something that 'supports' or holds a passage open. That's why to stent an artery means to place a small tube inside it so blood can flow.