An overview of in vitro drug release methods for drug-eluting stents

N Abbasnezhad, N Zirak, S Champmartin… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
The drug release profile of drug-eluting stents (DESs) is affected by a number of factors,
including the formulation, design, and physicochemical properties of the utilized material …

Red blood cell aggregates and their effect on non-Newtonian blood viscosity at low hematocrit in a two-fluid low shear rate microfluidic system

R Mehri, C Mavriplis, M Fenech - Plos one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Red blood cells (RBCs) are the most abundant cells in human blood. Remarkably RBCs
deform and bridge together to form aggregates under very low shear rates. The theory and …

3D printed patient-specific aortic root models with internal sensors for minimally invasive applications

G Haghiashtiani, K Qiu, JD Zhingre Sanchez… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Minimally invasive surgeries have numerous advantages, yet complications may arise from
limited knowledge about the anatomical site targeted for the delivery of therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal effects on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in peristaltic blood flow: Mathematical modeling

D Tripathi, DS Bhandari, O Anwar Bég - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
SARS-CoV-2 is a novel viral species that has been identified as a highly infectious disease.
Scientists have endeavored to collect essential information to better characterize the …

Shear induced fractionalized dispersion during Magnetic Drug Targeting in a permeable microvessel

JP Ndenda, S Shaw, JBH Njagarah - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solute dispersion is a significant phenomenon during drug targeting to estimate the
accumulation of drug particles at the tumour region with the capture efficiency. In this present …

Impact of side-hole geometry on the performance of hemodialysis catheter tips: A computational fluid dynamics assessment

DG Owen, DC de Oliveira, S Qian, NC Green… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Hemodialysis catheters are used to support blood filtration, yet there are multiple
fundamentally different approaches to catheter tip design with no clear optimal solution. Side …

Review on the numerical investigations of mass transfer from drug eluting stent

J Song, S Kouidri, F Bakir - Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Drug-eluting stent (DES) as the newly developed treatment for the cardiovascular disease
has been the preferred treatment option for most of the patients with significant reduction of …

Assessment of surface roughness and blood rheology on local coronary haemodynamics: a multi-scale computational fluid dynamics study

DG Owen, T Schenkel… - Journal of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The surface roughness of the coronary artery is associated with the onset of atherosclerosis.
The study applies, for the first time, the micro-scale variation of the artery surface to a 3D …

Numerical study of the interaction between cylindrical particles and shear-thinning fluids in a linear shear flow

J Ji, H Zhang, X An, D Yang - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, the interaction between cylindrical particles and shear-thinning non-Newtonian
fluids in a linear shear flow is investigated using particle-resolved direct numerical …

Stenosis to stented: decrease in flow disturbances following stent implantation of a diseased arteriovenous fistula

S Gunasekera, C de Silva, O Ng, S Thomas… - … and Modeling in …, 2024 - Springer
The arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is commonly faced with stenosis at the juxta-anastomotic
(JXA) region of the vein. Implantation of a flexible nitinol stent across the stenosed JXA has …