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Revolution in heart surgeries, that are developing and absorbable heart stent, a stent that can be permanently absorbed into your body. dr. siegel, you put it in, like disappearing sutures or stitches? >> exactly. biodegradable, played out of a plastic. i'll give you a little background. we have been dilating coronary arteries since the 1980s and they get so narrow and are tiny and we open them with a balloon and then we invented in the '90s this idea of putting a cylinder in there, a cage, to keep them open. and nowadays, we put drugs on those cages, so that they don't clot and so clots don't...

>> eric: back with the doctors and "sunday house call," did you know there is now a new revolution in heart surgeries, that are developing and absorbable heart stent, a stent that can be permanently absorbed into your body. dr. siegel, you put it in, like disappearing sutures or stitches? >> exactly. biodegradable, played out of a plastic. i'll give you a little background. we have been dilating coronary arteries since the 1980s and they get so narrow and are tiny and we open them with a balloon and then we invented in the '90s this idea of putting a cylinder in there, a cage, to keep them ope...