Implant degradation and poor healing after endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms: An analysis of explanted stent-grafts

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 457-467

  Major, Annie ^a   Guidoin, Robert ^b   Soulez, Gilles ^a   Gaboury, Louis A ^a   Cloutier, Guy ^a   Sapoval, Marc ^c   Douville, Yvan ^b   Dionne, Guy ^b   Geelkerken, Robert H ^d   Petrasek, Paul ^e   Lerouge, Sophie ^a,f  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^d MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e Peter Lougheed Centre   (Canada)

^f NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Corrosion; Endovascular aneurysm repair; Explants; Healing; Implant degradation; Neointima; Nitinol; Stent graft; Vascular healing

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; NITINOL; TITANIUM;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STENT; SURFACE PROPERTY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOYS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPROPYLENES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STENTS; TUNICA INTIMA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33748867061     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/06-1812MR.1     Document Type: Article

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