Drug-eluting stent and coronary thrombosis: Biological mechanisms and clinical implications

Circulation

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1051-1058

  Lüscher, Thomas F ^a,b   Steffel, Jan ^a,b   Eberli, Franz R ^a   Joner, Michael ^c   Nakazawa, Gaku ^c   Tanner, Felix C ^a,b   Virmani, Renu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteries; Myocardial infarction; Pathology; Physiology; Risk factors; Stents; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; PACLITAXEL; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA AGONIST; POLYMER; RAPAMYCIN; THROMBOPLASTIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DISSECTION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DRUG PENETRATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HEALING; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESTENOSIS; REVIEW; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THROMBOGENICITY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847259689     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.675934     Document Type: Review

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