Journal of Controlled Release: Intravascular drug release kinetics dictate arterial drug deposition, retention, and distribution

Balakrishnan B, Dooley J, Kopia G, Edelman ER. Intravascular drug release kinetics dictate arterial drug deposition, retention, and distribution.

Summary: Millions of patients worldwide have received drug-eluting stents to reduce their risk for in-stent restenosis. The efficacy and toxicity of these local therapeutics depend upon arterial drug deposition, distribution, and retention. To examine how administered dose and drug release kinetics control arterial drug uptake, a model was created using principles of computational fluid dynamics and transient drug diffusion-convection.

Journal of Controlled Release 2007; 123(2): 100-108.