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Structural Design of Vascular Stents: A Review

open access: yesMicromachines, 2021
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) is currently the most conventional and effective method for clinically treating cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis.
Chen Pan, Yafeng Han, Jiping Lu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cardiovascular Stents: A Review of Past, Current, and Emerging Devices

open access: yesMaterials, 2021
One of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide is coronary artery disease, a condition characterized by the narrowing of the artery due to plaque deposits.
Alexandru Scafa Udriște   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Polymer-based or Polymer-free Stents in Patients at High Bleeding Risk.

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2020
BACKGROUND Polymer-free drug-coated stents provide superior clinical outcomes to bare-metal stents in patients at high bleeding risk who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and are treated with 1 month of dual antiplatelet therapy.
S. Windecker   +31 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Self-expandable metal stents for obstructing colonic and extracolonic cancer: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Guideline – Update 2020

open access: yesEndoscopy, 2020
Main Recommendations The following recommendations should only be applied after a thorough diagnostic evaluation including a contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan.
J. V. van Hooft   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sirolimus-eluting stents versus standard stents in patients with stenosis in a native coronary artery.

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2003
BACKGROUND Preliminary reports of studies involving simple coronary lesions indicate that a sirolimus-eluting stent significantly reduces the risk of restenosis after percutaneous coronary revascularization.
J. Moses   +11 more
semanticscholar   +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
core   +2 more sources

Tracheomalatia, to stent or not to stent

open access: yesRespiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2015
Benign thyroid disorders such as goiter, especially retrosternal, can cause tracheostenosis by extrinsic tracheal compression, which is due to the lack of specific symptoms often misdiagnosed. Tracheomalatia develops as a result to long term tracheal compression and refers to weakness of the trachea characterized by softness of the tracheal cartilage ...
Perić, Irena   +5 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Everolimus-Eluting Stents or Bypass Surgery for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease.

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2016
BACKGROUND Patients with obstructive left main coronary artery disease are usually treated with coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG). Randomized trials have suggested that drug-eluting stents may be an acceptable alternative to CABG in selected ...
G. Stone   +32 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Manufacturing Innovative Stents

open access: yesPharmaceutics, 2020
Cardiovascular diseases are the most distributed cause of death worldwide. Stenting of arteries as a percutaneous transluminal angioplasty procedure became a promising minimally invasive therapy based on re-opening narrowed arteries by stent insertion ...
N. Beshchasna   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Stent migration after stent-in-stent technique using a biodegradable stent [PDF]

open access: yesEndoscopy, 2012
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de Roberto, G.   +7 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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