Drug deposition in coronary arteries with overlapping drug-eluting stents

Drug-eluting stents are accepted as mainstream endovascular therapy, yet concerns for their safety may be under-appreciated. While failure from restenosis has dropped to below 5%, the risk of stent thrombosis and associated mortality remain relatively high. Further optimization of drug release is re...

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Main Authors: Olgac, Ufuk, Poulikakos, Dimos, Kurtcuoglu, Vartan, Rikhtegar Nezami, Farhad, Edelman, Elazer R
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112773
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4210-3177
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7832-7156