Particle debris from a nanoporous stent
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Marc Kollum; Andrew Farb; Ralf Schreiber; Kirubel Terfera; Amina Arab; Andrea Ge
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Polymer stent coatings may not be suitable for drug elution because of inherent proinflammatory effects. A previous study suggested a beneficial effect of a stent eluting tacrolimus from a nanoporous ceramic aluminum oxide coating in a rabbit restenosis model. We investigated whether this stent is e