By TIME Staff
To address chronic limb-threatening ischemia—a serious condition in which patients have majorly blocked blood flow to their hands, legs, or feet—Abbott’s FDA-approved, first-of-its-kind dissolvable stent system keeps arteries open and delivers a vessel-healing drug.
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