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Surgery & Medical Devices · Recorded milestone

Coronary stent

Recorded year1986

Ulrich Sigwart and Jacques Puel place metal mesh tubes that hold heart arteries open after angioplasty.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.