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Randomized Comparison of Everolimus-Eluting and Sirolimus-Eluting Stents in Patients Treated With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The Scandinavian Organization for Randomized Trials With Clinical Outcome IV (SORT OUT IV) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
BACKGROUND: Among drug-eluting stents released to date, the sirolimus-eluting stent has demonstrated the least amount of late lumen loss, but its efficacy and safety have not been compared head-to-head with the next-generation everolimus-eluting stent ...
Aarøe, Jens   +20 more
core   +1 more source

Coming safely to a stop : a review of platelet activity after cessation of antiplatelet drugs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Funding Isobel Ford is an employee of the University of Aberdeen. The research for the writing of this review received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-forprofit sectorsPeer ...
Ford, Isobel
core   +1 more source

A two-phase two-layer model for transdermal drug delivery and percutaneous absorption

open access: yes, 2014
One of the promising frontiers of bioengineering is the controlled release of a therapeuticdrug from a vehicle across the skin (transdermal drug delivery).
de Monte, Filippo, Pontrelli, Giuseppe
core   +1 more source

3D printing for bio-synthetic biliary stents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Three-dimensional (3D) printing is an additive manufacturing method that holds great potential in a variety of future patient-specific medical technologies.
Alexander, Jonathan Steven   +10 more
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Drug-Eluting Stents

open access: yesInternational journal of clinical and experimental medicine, 2011
Coronary stents have revolutionized the management of patients with obstructive coronary artery disease. This chapter will review the problems associated with percutaneous coronary intervention when performed using balloon angioplasty and bare-metal stents, before discussing the first and second generation drug-eluting stents (DESs).
S. Garg, M. Magro, P.W. Serruys
openaire   +3 more sources

Immediate Small Side Branch Occlusion after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Tehran University Heart Center, 2007
Background: Small side branches, albeit less important than their larger counterparts, have not yet received due attention in the literature. Nor has there ever been a comparison between drug-eluting stents and bare metal stents apropos side branch ...
Mohammad Ali Ostovan, Reza Mollazadeh
doaj   +2 more sources

Interfacing exogenous stents with human coronary artery by self-assembled coating: designs, functionalities and applications

open access: yesNPG Asia Materials
Drug-eluting stents are a commonly used treatment for coronary artery disease. However, the coatings used in drug-eluting stents have some limitations such as poor biocompatibility and drug loading capacity.
Feng Zhao   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advances in stent technologies and their effect on clinical efficacy and safety

open access: yesMedical Devices: Evidence and Research, 2014
Navin Nikam, Toby B Steinberg, Daniel H SteinbergDivision of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USAAbstract: The introduction of intracoronary stents represented a major advance in interventional cardiology.
Nikam N, Steinberg TB, Steinberg DH
doaj  

Very late stent thrombosis of Sirolimus-eluting stent 59 months after implantation: A first report from the Middle-East and review of literature

open access: yesHeart Views, 2011
Very late stent thrombosis occurs more frequently with drug-eluting stents and tends to occur despite dual antiplatelet therapy or after long periods of clopidogrel discontinuation.
Prashanth Panduranga   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biological aspects of radiation and drug-eluting stents for the prevention of restenosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Based on recent advances, this article aims to review the biological basis for the use of either radiation or drug-eluting stents for the prevention of restenosis, and to elucidate the complementary role that they may play in the future.
Hendry, Jolyon H.   +4 more
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