Updated February 24, 2017. The mean or average birth weight in the United States is about 3,389g or 7 lb, 7.5 oz. However, any birth weight of a term newborn between 5 lbs, 8 oz and 8 lbs, 13 oz is considered to be normal. Baby Birth Weight Statistics.
Development of coronary stents. WALLSTENTÂ® (Schneider AG), a self-expanding, stainless steel wire-mesh structure, was the first coronary stent implanted in a human coronary artery by Sigwart et al. in 1986.
A Linda Martinez , Cardiac Rehabilitation, answered on behalf of Honor Society of Nursing (STTI) Aspirin is always given when someone has a heart artery stent placement and many of the stents used are called drug-eluting stents and these stents also require the use of more powerful anti-platelet drugs e.g. clopidogrel for at least a year.