The platinum chromium element stent platform: From alloy, to design, to clinical practice

Advances in Therapy

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 129-141

  Menown, Ian B A ^a   Noad, Rebecca ^a   Garcia, Eulogio J ^b   Meredith, Ian ^c  

^a Craigavon Cardiac Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cobalt chromium stent; Coronary stent; Platinum chromium stent; Radial strength; Radiopacity; Stainless steel stent; Strut thickness

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; CHROMIUM; COBALT; EVEROLIMUS; GOLD; IRON; MANGANESE; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; PACLITAXEL; PLATINUM; POLYMETHACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE; PROPYLENE; STAINLESS STEEL; TANTALUM; TITANIUM; TUNGSTEN;

BALLOON CATHETER; BARE METAL STENT; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REVIEW; THICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALLOYS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHROMIUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PLATINUM; PLIABILITY; STENTS;

EID: 77953021036     PISSN: 0741238X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12325-010-0022-9     Document Type: Review

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