Comparison of drug-eluting stent cell size using micro-CT: important data for bifurcation stent selection

EuroIntervention

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 391-396

  Mortier, Peter ^a   Van Loo, Denis ^a   De Beule, Matthieu ^a   Segers, Patrick ^a   Taeymans, Yves ^b   Verdonck, Pascal ^a   Verhegghe, Benedict ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Drug eluting stent; Imaging; Stent design; Stent thrombosis

Indexed keywords

EVEROLIMUS; PACLITAXEL; RAPAMYCIN; ZOTAROLIMUS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CORONARY BIFURCATION LESION; CORONARY SINUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RESTENOSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 59049097697     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV4I3A68     Document Type: Article

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