Ischemic heart disease is a rapidly increasing common cause of death in the world. This
disease is the insufficient status of oxygen within the cardiac muscles due to an imbalance …

Objective—Genomic changes were defined in cultures of regenerated porcine coronary
endothelial cells to explain the alterations that underlie their dysfunction. Methods and …

In-stent restenosis (ISR) is the major drawback of percutaneous coronary interventions,
occurring in 10–40% of patients. Drug eluting stents (DES) are successful in a large majority …

Objective: An economic evaluation was performed, using modelling techniques, to compare
1-year total costs of four revascularisation procedures in patients with multivessel disease …

Membrane-covered Express2TM Monorail® stents composed of chitosan (CH) blended with
polyethylene oxide (PEO) in 70: 30% wt (CH-PEO) were coated with a monolayer of …

Cardiovascular drug-eluting stents (DESs) have been used to prevent restenosis occurring
after the implantation of bare metal stents (BMSs). Recent studies, however, have indicated …

RESUMO A angioplastia coronária revolucionou o tratamento da doença coronária, desde a
primeira angioplastia de balão até aos stents medicados, que surgiram como uma forma de …