Luminal Flow Amplifies Stent-Based Drug Deposition in Arterial Bifurcations

Background Treatment of arterial bifurcation lesions using drug-eluting stents (DES) is now common clinical practice and yet the mechanisms governing drug distribution in these complex morphologies are incompletely understood. It is still not evident how to efficiently determine the efficacy of l...

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Main Authors: Kolachalama, Vijaya Bhasker, Levine, Evan G., Edelman, Elazer R.
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52573
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7832-7156