{"id":13017,"date":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-heart-disease-bernie-sanders-stents\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","slug":"condition-heart-disease-bernie-sanders-stents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-heart-disease-bernie-sanders-stents\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Is Having Heart Trouble: What You Need to Know About His Health Scare"},"content":{"rendered":"
Senator Bernie Sanders had two stents inserted to treat an artery blockage after experiencing chest pain<\/a>, the New York Times<\/a> <\/i>reports.<\/p>\n Jeff Weaver, an adviser to Senator Sanders, said in a statement Wednesday morning, “During a campaign event yesterday evening, Senator Sanders experienced some chest discomfort. Following medical evaluation and testing he was found to have a blockage in one artery and two stents were successfully inserted," according to the New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n A stent is a small mesh tube made of wire, per the American Heart Association<\/a> (AHA). They're used to open arteries and are kept there permanently to keep arteries open.<\/p>\n RELATED: What Is Heart Disease?<\/p>\n Stents are used to treat blocked coronary arteries, which feed into the heart muscle. Those arteries can become blocked by buildups of plaque, or fatty deposits, and these buildups can reduce blood flow to the heart. Chest pain can be a result of a blocked coronary artery.<\/p>\n In general, stents are a result of a procedure doctors call a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also known as an angioplasty. These are used to treat blocked or narrowed arteries, according to the AHA. During a PCI, doctors insert a balloon-tipped catheter (which is a tube) into the artery. The catheter is moved to the blocked part of the artery and inflated to compress the built-up plaque, opening the narrowed area of the artery.<\/p>\n Once the artery has been re-opened, the catheter is removed, but the stent, which is placed over the balloon-tipped catheter, locks into place and stays behind, keeping the artery open and improving the amount of blood that reaches the heart, per the AHA. It also helps alleviate chest pain in the patient. According to the AHA, patients who have angioplasty and stents recover from those procedures much faster than patients who have coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG), which can also restore blood flow to a blocked artery.<\/p>\n