Drug-eluting stents for coronary artery disease: a review

DM Martin, FJ Boyle - Medical engineering & physics, 2011 - Elsevier
Over the past decade the introduction of drug-eluting stents (DESs) has revolutionised the
treatment of coronary artery disease. However, in recent years concern has arisen over the …

[HTML][HTML] A decade of modelling drug release from arterial stents

S McGinty - Mathematical biosciences, 2014 - Elsevier
Drug-eluting stents have revolutionised the treatment of coronary artery disease. These
small medical devices have attracted much interest over the past decade from biologists …

Computational vascular fluid–structure interaction: methodology and application to cerebral aneurysms

Y Bazilevs, MC Hsu, Y Zhang, W Wang… - … and modeling in …, 2010 - Springer
A computational vascular fluid–structure interaction framework for the simulation of patient-
specific cerebral aneurysm configurations is presented. A new approach for the computation …

A fully-coupled fluid-structure interaction simulation of cerebral aneurysms

Y Bazilevs, MC Hsu, Y Zhang, W Wang, X Liang… - Computational …, 2010 - Springer
This paper presents a computational vascular fluid-structure interaction (FSI) methodology
and its application to patient-specific aneurysm models of the middle cerebral artery …

Multiobjective design optimisation of coronary stents

S Pant, G Limbert, NP Curzen, NW Bressloff - Biomaterials, 2011 - Elsevier
We present here a multi-objective and multi-disciplinary coronary stent design optimization
paradigm. Coronary stents are tubular, often mesh-like, structures which are deployed in …

Geometry parameterization and multidisciplinary constrained optimization of coronary stents

S Pant, NW Bressloff, G Limbert - Biomechanics and modeling in …, 2012 - Springer
Coronary stents are tubular type scaffolds that are deployed, using an inflatable balloon on a
catheter, most commonly to recover the lumen size of narrowed (diseased) arterial …

Bio-functional design, application and trends in metallic biomaterials

K Yang, C Zhou, H Fan, Y Fan, Q Jiang, P Song… - International Journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Introduction of metals as biomaterials has been known for a long time. In the early
development, sufficient strength and suitable mechanical properties were the main …

Modelling of the provisional side-branch stenting approach for the treatment of atherosclerotic coronary bifurcations: effects of stent positioning

D Gastaldi, S Morlacchi, R Nichetti, C Capelli… - … and modeling in …, 2010 - Springer
The most common approach to treat atherosclerosis in coronary bifurcations is the
provisional side-branch (PSB) stenting, which consists sequentially of the insertion of a stent …

Modeling stented coronary arteries: where we are, where to go

S Morlacchi, F Migliavacca - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2013 - Springer
In the last two decades, numerical models have become well-recognized and widely
adopted tools to investigate stenting procedures. Due to limited computational resources …

Finite element analysis of balloon‐expandable coronary stent deployment: Influence of angioplasty balloon configuration

D Martin, F Boyle - … journal for numerical methods in biomedical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Today, the majority of coronary stents are balloon‐expandable and are deployed using a
balloon‐tipped catheter. To improve deliverability, the membrane of the angioplasty balloon …