03/06/2026
The question that is asked is whether stents are safe or not.
It is a therapy that has been tried and tested in a very large number of patients, and it has been used for almost 4 decades now. So saying that stents are not safe is absolutely wrong.
The functioning or the potency of stents or the life of stunt depends upon the patient's basic characteristics. Means whether the patient is diabetic, whether the patient has multiple blockages, what the length of the stents is, and what the diameter of the blood vessel which is being treated is.
So a longer stent with a smaller diameter or a patient who is diabetic or has multiple long-segment blocks, recurrence in such patients is more common than in a patient who has a small single-shot and a big diameter stent.
The second important factor is the patient's medication. So if patients are complaint to blood thinner medication and cholesterol medicine, generally the stent complications are very rare, and third and foremost important is the lifetime management. So if the individual after angioplasty continues to have a healthy lifestyle, that means control his weight, avoiding a diet that is not safe for a heart patient and seeing to it that he is free from all the addiction, probably the functioning of the stent will be far better.