Mayo Clinic Researchers Use Magnetic Attraction To Improve Stents, Reduce Blood Clot Risk

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- 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. >>> Discuss This Story

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