Drug-eluting stents have revolutionised the treatment of coronary artery disease. These
small medical devices have attracted much interest over the past decade from biologists …

A high performance activated carbon was synthesized using walnut shell as a solid waste
through a two-step zinc chloride chemical activation-thermal pyrolysis process …

Current drug eluting stent (DES) technology is not optimized with regard to the
pharmacokinetics of drug delivery. A novel, absorbable-coating sirolimus-eluting stent (AC …

Stent modeling represents a challenging task from both the theoretical and numerical
viewpoints, due to its multi-physics nature and to the complex geometrical configuration of …

A mathematical model of a drug-eluting stent is proposed. The model considers a polymer
region, containing the drug initially, and a porous region, consisting of smooth muscle cells …

Drug-eluting stents have significantly improved the treatment of coronary artery disease.
They offer reduced rates of restenosis compared with their bare-metal predecessors and are …

A new mass transfer model has been formulated and implemented for predicting the
penetration of liquid medication into an arterial wall. The model takes separate account of …

Many alloys used in cardiovascular device applications contain high levels of nickel, which if
released in sufficient quantities, can lead to adverse health effects. While nickel release from …

In this article we investigate the role of anisotropic diffusion on the resulting arterial wall drug
distribution following stent-based delivery. The arterial wall is known to exhibit anisotropic …

We propose a fully coupled model for the description of blood flow and mass transport by a
coronary drug-eluting stent. We consider the steady state Navier–Stokes equations to …