Does heparin coating of metallic coronary stents reduce thrombogenicity and improve late vessel patency and neointimal hyperplasia in a porcine coronary model?
Heparin coating of coronary stents reduces thrombogenicity but fails to prevent late neointimal hyperplasia in a porcine model.
Heparin coating of metallic coronary stents decreases their thrombogenicity but does not improve late vessel patency and neointimal hyperplasia at follow-up in a porcine coronary model.
Scheerder et al. (Tue,) studied this question.