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SUBMITTER: O'Brien CC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4893976 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Annals of biomedical engineering 20160105 7
Up to 80% of all endovascular stents have malapposed struts, and while some impose catastrophic events others are inconsequential. Thirteen stents were implanted in coronary arteries of seven healthy Yorkshire pigs, using specially-designed cuffed balloons inducing controlled stent malapposition and under-expansion. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging confirmed that 25% of struts were malapposed (strut-wall distance <strut thickness) to variable extent (max. strut-wall distance malapposed ...[more]