… a glass tube as a stent for portacaval anastomosis [4]. In 1900… Biodegradable metal stents
provide strong anastomosis, can … 2 of 9 anastomoses remaining patent at the 1-week mark. …

… Metal stents prevent in-stent restenosis but the corrosion of the … After 3 weeks, the stents
can be removed and washed with a … restenosis in ureteroureteral anastomosis [68]. These …

… Biodegradable polymer stents are expected to mechanically … artery was completely occluded
after 4-6 weeks.However, the … We used a standard rhombic stent design with stent length of …

… of rabbit iliac arteries implanted with a bare metal stent (316L… The selected polymer was
poly-L-lactide, poly-trimethylene … The initial research work carried out at MIT on the light-…

… hyperplasia at the distal anastomosis, and compliance mismatch … This work served to identify
the elastomeric biodegradable … matching the ones of the porcine iliac arteries (Figure 7). …

… Hence, biodegradable polymeric stents have been … to high risk lesions with pre-dilatation
prior to stent implantation. A … (>8 mm) such as the iliac arteries has a long-term patency rate of …

… stent with a nanolayer coating of Polyzene-F (PzF) achieved compete endothelialization in
the model of rabbit iliac … an excessive intimal hyperplasia at the anastomoses. [ 253 ] A recent …

… arteries right after stent implantation Porcine coronary artery Four weeks … steel stent Human
VE-cadherin EPCs exposed to stents for 30 min before implantation Rabbit iliac arteries After …

… result in sepsis, anastomotic failure or even rupture. Biodegradable materials are regarded
as an … Most current stent-grafts are based on self-expandable nitinol stents made of Dacron or …

… stent versus the spiral SR- PLLA stent. Although the initial outcomes obtained with PLA
based urethal stents … was filled with PCBM harvested from ilium. The mesh tray was implanted …