Not Signed In - Magnetic Attraction Used To Improve Stents, Reduce Blood Clot Risk
Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:00 PM EST
... Mayo Clinic heart researchers have devised a new strategy to improve the effectiveness and safety of heart stents, which are used to open narrowed blood vessels and have been the recent subject of clotting concerns. Their novel approach is based on magnetizing healing cells from the patient's blood so the cells are quickly drawn to magnetically coated stents. [click link for full article] ...
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