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I had my 3 months check up post-op. After the procedure, my left ballooned vein was 3.5 mm and my right stented vein was 6 mm. Now, they both are 4.5 mm. Is it normal for the stented veins to shrink???

My stented vein stenosed 1 week after treatment. And the other 2 which had an original stenosis of 70% and 80% were now 99%.

This has me confused...I thought the whole purpose of implanting stents was to have a mechanical device which could resist the inward pressure of the blood vessel walls. I wonder if the inner vessel wall cells could grow that fast...in just one week? Or did the stent itself collapse?

What can done for you? Are the stents stretchable?

Donnchadh

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The stenosis in my stented vein was just beyond the stent. Not in the stent.