After a blocked artery is treated with angioplasty to restore blood flow, the artery may become blocked again. This is called restenosis. One way to prevent restenosis is to place a stent inside the artery at the spot where the blockage was cleared by angioplasty. A stent is a tiny, metal mesh tube that is placed with a catheter and permanently embedded within the artery wall to prop open and prevent it from collapsing.
Associations between Agent Orange and other dioxin-contaminated herbicides and structural birth defects like spina bifida, oral clefts, heart defects and hypospadias may be just the âtip of the icebergâ.
Orange skin resulting from excessive carrot consumption sounds like something out of a science fiction novel or a bizarre comedy. However, the fact is that yellow skin pigmentation resulting from increased beta-carotene levels in the blood is a real clinical condition called carotenemia. Though carotenemia is harmless, it's easy to confuse with jaundice in young children.