Does this mean that all the stents, like breast implants, shall have to be removed? This would seem to be an extraordinarily difficult procedure....
Naw, it can all be solved with a class-action suit, in which 10,000 lawyers represent all the thousands of patients who have undergone the procedure, collecting some 75% of the actual disbursements from the malpractice insurance companies, distributing the remaining 25% to the members of the class, and totally eliminating this procedure from practice ever again in this country.
It would be an extremely dangerous proceedure. tampering with the stent would almost certainly result in embolisms going who knows where!
I wish you had needed a Sarcasm Tag for your reply, but sadly it's too close to the truth.