Stents covered by an autologous arterial graft in porcine coronary arteries: Feasibility, vascular injury and effect on neointimal hyperplasia

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 433-442

  Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Vaina, Sophia ^a   Tsekoura, Dorothea ^a   Haldi, Lubna ^a   Stefanadi, Elli ^a   Gravanis, Michael ^b   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteries; Histopathology; Restenosis; Stents; Thrombosis; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; GRAFT PATENCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SWINE; THROMBOGENESIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANIMALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STENTS; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 0033053066     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(98)00211-9     Document Type: Article

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