Removing vascular obstructions: A challenge, yet an opportunity for interventional microdevices

Biomedical Microdevices

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 511-532

  Miloro, Piero ^a   Sinibaldi, Edoardo ^b   Menciassi, Arianna ^a   Dario, Paolo ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b Center for Micro BioRobotics at SSSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atherectomy; Atherosclerotic plaque; Therapeutic ultrasounds; Thrombectomy; Thrombolysis; Vascular microdevices

Indexed keywords

ATHERECTOMY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; MICRO DEVICES; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYSIS;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; LIPOSOME; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; RECOMBINANT PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ANGIOPLASTY; ATHERECTOMY; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CATHETER DELIVERED ULTRASOUND ENHANCED THROMBOLYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIRECTIONAL ATHERECTOMY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFICACY; ENCAPSULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HELICAL ATHERECTOMY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTERVENTION STUDY; LASER ATHERECTOMY; LASER SURGERY; LIPOSOMAL DELIVERY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NANODEVICE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL ATHERECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETRIEVAL THROMBECTOMY; REVIEW; RHEOLYTIC THROMBECTOMY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ROTATIONAL ATHERECTOMY; ROTATIONAL THROMBECTOMY; STENOSIS; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THERAPY EFFECT; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBECTOMY THROMBOLYSIS; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBOLYSIS IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THROMBOSIS; THROMBUS; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS ULTRASOUND THROMBOLYSIS; ULTRASOUND ANGIOPLASTY; ULTRASOUND ENHANCED THROMBOLYSIS; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; THROMBECTOMY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84861431140     PISSN: 13872176     EISSN: 15728781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10544-011-9627-2     Document Type: Review

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