▪ Abstract Knowledge of blood vessel mechanical properties is fundamental to the
understanding of vascular function in health and disease. Analytic results can help …

Cardiovascular diseases are increasingly becoming the main cause of death all over the
world, which has led to an increase in the economic and social burden of such diseases …

Shape-memory materials have been proposed in biomedical device design due to their
ability to facilitate minimally invasive surgery and recover to a predetermined shape in vivo …

Background—Stent-based therapy in the superficial femoral and popliteal arteries in
patients with peripheral artery disease is compromised by restenosis and risk of stent …

With increasing knowledge of the materials science of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and
improvements in their properties and processing, they have started to become candidate …

Clinical studies have identified factors such as the stent design and the deployment
technique that are one cause for the success or failure of angioplasty treatments. In addition …

Restenosis resulting from neointimal hyperplasia (NH) limits the effectiveness of
intravascular stents. Rates of restenosis vary with stent geometry, but whether stents affect …

Restenosis limits the effectiveness of stents, but the mechanisms responsible for this
phenomenon remain incompletely described. Stent geometry and expansion during …

A stent is a device designed to restore flow through constricted arteries. These tubular
scaffold devices are delivered to the afflicted region and deployed using minimally invasive …

Since the first human procedure in the late 1980s, vascular stent implantation has been
accepted as a standard form of treatment of atherosclerosis. Despite their tremendous …