Implants like stents, stent grafts and replacement heart valves often combine ePTFE (expanded polytetrafluoroethylene) with ...

Device designers are likely familiar with achieving very different results when testing components in vivo, compared with those obtained in vitro. A team of students at Michigan Technological ...

Transmission electron microscopic images show the structure of BioNanomatrix, a stent-coating material developed by Endomimetics to inhibit the proliferation of smooth muscle cells and prevent ...

A project at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has developed a laser-based procedure intended to improve the successful use of stents in vascular surgery. As the global population ...

Perhaps the biggest and most contentious flurry of activity centers on the actual mechanics of drug-delivery and the need for a polymer coating. Polymers have been hailed by some as essential to ...

The goal of CAS is prevention of emboligenic stroke. As presented by Cremonesi and Castriota, most CAS-related strokes occur in the early postprocedural phase; [11] the greatest stroke risk occurs in ...

A lot of it comes down to special materials called piezoelectrics. Now, imagine being able to 3D print these materials into ...