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 (Author), Poulikakos, Dimos (Author), Kurtcuoglu, Vartan (Author), Rikhtegar Nezami, Farhad (Contributor), Edelman, Elazer R (Contributor)
Other Authors: Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2017-12-18T14:23:43Z.
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