Endothelium lining the cardiovascular system is highly sensitive to hemodynamic shear
stresses that act at the vessel luminal surface in the direction of blood flow. Physiological …

Background: Blood vessel mechanics has traditionally been of interest to researchers and
clinicians. Changes in mechanical properties of arteries have been associated with various …

Part medicine, part biology, and part engineering, biomedicine and bioengineering are by
their nature hybrid disciplines. To make these disciplines work, engineers need to speak" …

Background—The intricacies of stent design, local pharmacology, tissue biology, and
rheology preclude an intuitive understanding of drug distribution and deposition from drug …

Balloon-expandable and self-expandable stents are the two types of coronary stents
available. Basically, they differ in the modality of expansion. The present study analyses the …

Intracoronary stent implantation (ICSI) has been widely used in interventional procedures. It
can induce an even greater increment in intervention effectiveness and in success rate than …

Endovascular stents reside in a dynamic flow environment and yet the impact of flow on
arterial drug deposition after stent-based delivery is only now emerging. We employed …

Objective/background To investigate experimentally the arterial wall/device compliance
mismatch of four stent-graft devices and a multilayer flow modulator within the supra-and …

The analysis of a flow pattern in cerebral aneurysms and the effect of stent strut shapes are
presented in this article. The treatment of cerebral aneurisms with a porous stent has …

Stent design and geometry influence the fluid mechanical environment in an artery and
hence affect clinical outcomes of restenosis. There is clearly a role for biomechanics in …