How to Use stent in a Sentence

stent

noun
  • Well who needs a stent placement and an and aspirin and statin?
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The stent is a small wire mesh tube that then is propped inside to keep the artery open.
    — Lauran Neergaard, Twin Cities, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Surgeons had to quickly implant a graft and a stent to shore it up.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 5 May 2022
  • In two months, it will be removed and replaced with a stent to keep her blood flowing.
    — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Three major strokes and double brain surgery with a metal stent in your head will do that.
    — Nashville Tennessean, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The device is then deployed, which acts like a stent to divert blood away from the aneurysm.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Its products now include catheters, coronary stents, and heart valves.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2018
  • Soon, doctors would implant stents in her kidneys.
    — Jay Deitcher, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
  • One of the sheaths carries a stent graft that surgeons can place inside the aorta.
    — Trihealth Dailyhealthwire, Cincinnati.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Doctors placed a stent in her carotid artery hoping to prevent future strokes.
    — Ann Neumann, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Once the power was restored, doctors were able to complete the stent.
    — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The research didn't address use of stents to save lives of heart attack patients.
    — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The worst-case scenario was believed to be the insertion of a stent and an overnight stay.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 9 July 2021
  • Doctors scheduled a procedure to place a stent in the artery.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 May 2026
  • Zaranek had a stent inserted in one artery, which was completely blocked.
    — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 7 Feb. 2020
  • But everything, from a handbag to a heart stent, needs design.
    — Fortune, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Self had two more stents inserted last July.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And that was basically a stent going up into the brain to pull out a blood clot.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024
  • These can include pacemakers, stents, piercings and screws in bones.
    — Michaela Maya-Mrschtik, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Once in place, the balloon is inflated to open the artery and position the stent.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Back home, a cardiologist found a blockage and put a stent in place.
    — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • An illustration showing how a stent can support blood flow in an artery.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 May 2026
  • Part of her treatment included the insertion of a bile duct stent.
    — CBS News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Minutes later, the stent failed, filling with plaque after the doctor left the cath lab.
    — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Sometimes, stents are also used to drain extra fluid from the fetus' chest.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Nash had a stent put in his heart approximately 20 years ago.
    — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Similar coatings could make stents, catheters, and IV lines safer.
    — Sarah Zhang, WIRED, 20 July 2016
  • Soon people were dropping off gear at his house—stents, spirals, coils, flow diverters.
    — Martha Raddatz, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
  • Luckily, the cardiologist was able to clean out the clot and place a stent in my artery.
    — Robin Oliveira, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
  • The balloon emits electrical shocks that help break up the calcium and allow the stent to open wider.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 May 2026

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