
Every year, around 85,000 Britons have stents — small metal tubes — put into their arteries to help blood flow, but sometimes the blood vessels get blocked again. Shabir Makda, a 52-year-old bus driver from Leicester, was the first Briton to have a new stent which cuts this risk. Here he talks to PAUL DINSDALE …
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