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Stent Expansion and Endothelial Shear Stress in Bifurcation Lesions

Authors :
Usman Baber
Eisha Gupta
Samin K. Sharma
Jagat Narula
Samit Bhatheja
Nitin Barman
Vishal Kapur
Annapoorna Kini
Asaad Khan
Roxana Mehran
Yuliya Vengrenyuk
Choudhury Hasan
Joseph Sweeny
Surbhi Chamaria
Naotaka Okamoto
Source :
Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. 12
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2019.

Abstract

Treatment of bifurcation lesions remains technically challenging for interventional cardiologists. Previous idealized in vitro bench models have shown that kissing balloon inflation (KBI) might result in a less circular stent shape, worse stent apposition and lower endothelial shear stress (ESS)

Details

ISSN :
19417632 and 19417640
Volume :
12
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....9f9c85e2e0683e02def91674053bc08e
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1161/circinterventions.119.007911