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Market trends: Stents supplant surgery
Healthcare Strategist Trend Watch, August 19, 2005
Cardiac stents, which are used to prop open closed arteries to improve blood flow, are becoming increasingly popular. But as the number of people who prefer stents over surgery rises, the revolution in the catheterization suite is squeezing hospitals' bottom lines. The number of bypass operations in Pennsylvania, for example, was relatively constant at about 20,000 between 1995 and 2000. But by 2003, the number of bypass surgeries had fallen to 15,117, partly because of the increasing popularity of heart stents.
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