New stent may free heart surgery for children with heart disease
chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2022-12-29 08:26
For a long time, when surgeons placed stents in infants and young children with congenital heart disease, they used adult stents with narrower diameters, but as children grew older, doctors needed to perform multiple heart operations to replace the stents. Now, a new heart stent designed for infants with heart problems may reduce or eliminate the likelihood of major heart surgery.
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