A CT scan of me resulted in the following statement "The right renal artery has a stent in it which remains widely patent". What is meant by this?

Why didn’t you ask the doctor when he gave you the results?

I was going to say the same thing as @cwilbur. OTherwise, try looking it up on Web M.D.?

www.webmd.com

“Patent” in this sense means “Open, unobstructed, affording free passage.
Thus, for example, the bowel may be patent (as opposed to obstructed).” source

Since a stent is put into an artery to keep it open and unobstructed, I’d take this as good news.

@cwilbur @erichw1504- He probably hasn’t seen the doctor yet and lab techs aren’t sopposed to give theresults of tests to patients.

@Harp is correct. Widely patent = good news (especially if you had heard before that it was stenosed). Stenosis = narrowing. So, to translate into normal English, the report says “The right renal artery has a stent in it which remains wide open (to blood flow).”

@shilolo: Why can’t these reports be written in clear English? Why the need for obfuscation?