What's the difference between stenting and stetting?

Stenting


Definition:

  • (n.) An opening in a wall in a coal mine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
  • (2) In one patient with a B-II stomach, the stent could only be inserted by the percutaneous transhepatic route.
  • (3) There were no cases of stent migration or occlusion due to encrustation of bile.
  • (4) Veryan has developed a stent – a metal mesh tube inserted in an artery – that mimics the natural swirl of the blood flow, which researchers have found improves outcomes for patients with circulation problems.
  • (5) The insertion of stent was succeeded in all 4 cases, and the improvement of clinical symptoms and elevation of ankle pressure index were observed.
  • (6) Nine patients had variably significant ductal changes attributable to pancreatic duct stents.
  • (7) Titanium-nickel alloy composed of 50% by weight of each metal has unique thermal shape-memory properties, with a transition temperature of 20 degrees C. Each stent consists of one wire with a diameter of 0.9 mm.
  • (8) Between June 1988 and July 1991, 464 new device interventions (Palmaz-Schatz stent or Simpson directional atherectomy) were performed in 410 patients.
  • (9) The stent was applied without general anesthesia under mild i.v.
  • (10) Clogging of endoscopic stents necessitates their replacement in many patients with malignant obstructive jaundice and limits their use in benign strictures.
  • (11) The stents were inserted by using a 10-12 Fr catheter.
  • (12) Intravascular stenting has been established as a useful treatment in adults with coronary and peripheral vascular disease.
  • (13) A variety of interventional endovascular instruments have been produced and used in a wide field of pathologies: balloons for proximal clamping, distal embolization by particles, arterial desobstruction by seeking devices, propping of vascular lumen by stenting, in situ infusion of drugs (fibrinolysis), filters, foreign body retrieval systems.
  • (14) In spite of the low complication rate, the advisability of clinical application of stents should always be critically considered before the final decision is made.
  • (15) Additionally, there is promise that stents will enhance the percutaneous treatment of renal artery ostial lesions, infrainguinal arterial lesions, and strictures in large veins.
  • (16) The average period of follow-up is 65 days, the longest 105 days (silicone stents) respectively 306 days (metallic stents).
  • (17) We believe that treatment of tracheal stenosis using dilation with stents is a reasonably good alternative in patients whose general condition makes them poor risks for major tracheal surgery.
  • (18) Treatment by either antegrade placement of ureteral stents or abdominal exploration with deligation or ureteroneocystotomy was successful in all cases.
  • (19) Antibiotic suppression and stent changes should not be used routinely but rather they should be individualized.
  • (20) An expandable metal stent inserted via a long term tracheostomy successfully relieved life threatening respiratory obstruction due to benign tracheal stenosis.

Stetting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stet

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maximum tetanic stiffness (Stet) was related to Ftet according to the following regression (both variables expressed as percentage of their control values): Stet = 0.369 Ftet + 62.91 (correlation coefficient, 0.95; P less than 0.001).
  • (2) In a two group-study of patients with and without postoperative haemorrhagic diathesis after ECC tests were undertaken to ascertain whether a postoperative haemorrhagic diathesis after neutralization of Heparin is due to the use of protamine-chloride or stet to a preoperative existing disturbance of the coagulation system.
  • (3) Then the case is going to get called to court and a prosecutor's going to sign his overtime slip for two, three hours to show up for a case that's probably going to be stetted [dropped] because it's unconstitutional.
  • (4) Of them, sinusotrabeculectomy (STET) was made in 49 eyes, sinusotrabeculotomy (STT)--in 50, a new, proposed by the authors, operation--a "cap peak" sinusotrabeculotomy (CPSTT)--in 66 eyes; the latter excludes direct fistulization of the anterior chamber under the superficial scleral flap.
  • (5) In remote terms (3 years after the operations), stabilization of visual acuity and visual field was recorded after STET in 69.3% and 85.7%, after STT--in 82.0% and 90.0%, and after CPSTT--in 87.9% and 92.4%, respectively.
  • (6) Iridocyclitis, flat anterior chamber and detachment of the choroid were observed after STET in 32.6%, 24.5% and 26.5%, after STT--in 22.0%, 14.0% and 16.0%, and after CPSTT--in 6.0%, 4.5% and 1.5%, respectively.
  • (7) Groups receiving no iron showed a fall in mean stet concentration.
  • (8) After STET and STT, hypotony was recorded in 28.5% and 18.0%, respectively, and after CPSTT--in none of the cases.
  • (9) Even the counselor's background can be counterproductive, especially when the teen chooses STET unlikely to succeed.
  • (10) Hyphema and anterior chamber emptying were recorded at the time of STET in 22.4% and 16.3%, of STT--in 8.0% and 10.0%, while at the time of CPSTT--only in 3.0% and 1.5%, respectively.
  • (11) 3) There were significant correlation coefficients (p less than 0.05) between some stets, e.g.
  • (12) Stable normalization of intraocular pressure took place after STET in 93.8%, after STT--in 98.0%, and after CPSTT--in 96.9%.

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