Fully implantable batteryless soft platforms with printed nanomaterial-based arterial stiffness sensors for wireless continuous monitoring of restenosis in real time.

ABSTRACT: Atherosclerosis is a common cause of coronary artery disease and a significant factor in broader cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death. While implantation of a stent is a prevalent treatment of coronary artery disease, a frequent complication is restenosis, where the stented artery narrows and stiffens. Although early detection of restenosis can be achieved by continuous monitoring, no available device offers such capability without surgeries. Here, we report a fully implantable soft electronic system without batteries and circuits, which still enables continuous wireless monitoring of restenosis in real-time with a set of nanomembrane strain sensors in an electronic stent. The low-profile system requires minimal invasive implantation to deploy the sensors into a blood vessel

SUBMITTER: Herbert R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9970263 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature