(Nanowerk Spotlight) Millions of medical procedures every year rely on stents—small mesh-like tubes—to keep body channels open when diseases threaten to close them off. These stents help restore blood ...
CLEVELAND -- A new urinary stent invented by Lee Ponsky, MD, Chair of the Department of Urology and the Leo & Charlotte Goldberg Chair in Advanced Surgical Therapies at University Hospitals (UH) in ...
After years of hearing from patients how bothersome — and sometimes painful — ureteral stents are, Dr. Lee Ponsky, chair of the Department of Urology at University Hospitals, experienced the ...
BARCELONA—A thermo-expandable segmental metallic stent has scored higher than a conventional polyurethane plastic stent on a validated quality of life questionnaire completed by patients with ureteral ...
Covering stents with hairlike structures called cilia may help keep the implanted medical tubes clean, preventing infection, researchers report April 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
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