| 11. | Doctors who place carotid artery stents fret about two potential complications.
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| 12. | The kicker was a new product cycle for their stent business.
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| 13. | Cordis is also already working on new versions of the stent.
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| 14. | Uncoated stents have been implanted in patients for about a decade.
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| 15. | All of these occurred in the case of the Cypher stent.
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| 16. | Patients who already have stents were not affected by the recall.
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| 17. | Patients who already have stents are not affected by the recall.
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| 18. | Stents are tiny metal mesh cylinders that prop open blood vessels.
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| 19. | The company also received complaints about balloons sticking to the stents.
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| 20. | Medinol was looking for a US partner to distribute its stents.
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