Tzafriri AR, Bailey L, Stanley JRL, Zani BG, Markham PM, Carlyle WC, McClain JB, Edelman, ER. ‘Stents with absorbable tissue-deployable coatings can distribute drug more uniformly between struts.’
Summary: We examined whether deployment of coating from drug-eluting stents (DES) into surrounding neointima could protect a crystalline drug load from luminal washout and distribute drug more efficiently and uniformly compared to conventional DES.