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Luminal Flow Amplifies Stent-Based Drug Deposition in Arterial Bifurcations

BACKGROUND: Treatment of arterial bifurcation lesions using drug-eluting stents (DES) is now common clinical practice and yet the mechanisms governing drug distribution in these complex morphologies are incompletely understood. It is still not evident how to efficiently determine the efficacy of loc...

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Autores principales: Kolachalama, Vijaya B., Levine, Evan G., Edelman, Elazer R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19956555
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008105