Expanded stent physically opens a blocked blood vessel, but interactions between the metal surface and vascular cells can either promote healing or lead to adverse effects.
Individuals with long coronary lesions requiring implantation of multiple stents are an important patient subgroup for whom careful evaluation and decision-making with optimal stent deployment is ...
Drug-eluting stents reduce the occurrence of in-stent restenosis and the need for subsequent target vessel revascularization when compared with bare-metal stents. However, drug-eluting stents may ...
The latest bulk procurement included some 11,000 cochlear implants purchased from five suppliers, as well as 258,000 peripheral vascular stents obtained from 18 suppliers, the National Healthcare ...
On the day before your treatment, you may be asked to withhold some of your blood pressure medication. This is so it does not interfere with the blood pressure response during the actual stent ...
Vascular. 2005;13(4):205-210. The number of connectors is not the only factor influencing stent flexibility. More important is the way in which the connectors are shaped straight bridges are less ...