Vascular Response to Experimental Stent Malapposition and Under-Expansion.
Ann Biomed Eng
; 44(7): 2251-60, 2016 07.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26732391
ABSTRACT
Up to 80% of all endovascular stents have malapposed struts, and while some impose catastrophic events others are inconsequential. Thirteen stents were implanted in coronary arteries of seven healthy Yorkshire pigs, using specially-designed cuffed balloons inducing controlled stent malapposition and under-expansion. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging confirmed that 25% of struts were malapposed (strut-wall distance Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Stents
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Coronary Vessels
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Tomography, Optical Coherence
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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
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Models, Cardiovascular
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Animals
Language:
En
Journal:
Ann Biomed Eng
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States