Why the study?
Does a new multicellular gold-coated stent design reduce vascular injury and restenosis compared to a conventional slotted tube stent in a porcine coronary overstretch model?
Population
13 pigs using the coronary overstretch model, receiving a total of 26 stents
Comparison
New balloon-expandable gold-coated stent vs Conventional gold-coated slotted tube stent
Design
Preclinical
Follow-up
28 days and 3 months
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for multicellular stent designs; human trials required before clinical translation.
Does a new multicellular gold-coated stent design reduce vascular injury and restenosis compared to a conventional slotted tube stent in a porcine coronary overstretch model?
A new multicellular gold-coated stent design reduces vascular injury and neointimal formation compared to a conventional slotted tube design in a porcine model.
Schulz et al. (1999) studied this question.
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