Coronary drug-eluting stents are commonplace in clinical practice with acceptable safety and efficacy. Preclinical evaluation of novel drug-eluting stent technologies has great importance for understanding safety and possibly efficacy of these technologies, and well-defined preclinical testing methods clearly benefit multiple communities within the developmental, testing, and clinical evaluatio...

BACKGROUND In recent studies, investigators have used a cyclic loading model to investigate the efficacy of rotator cuff fixation modalities. HYPOTHESIS A bioabsorbable poly-D-lactic acid screw and toothed washer implant will provide more stable fixation of rotator cuff repairs than standard suture anchor techniques. STUDY DESIGN Controlled laboratory study. METHODS Forty bovine shoulders...

This study established a numerical model to investigate the degradation mechanism and behavior of bioabsorbable cardiovascular stents. In order to generate the constitutive degradation material model, the degradation characteristics were characterized with user-defined field variables. The radial strength bench test and analysis were used to verify the material model. In order to validate the n...

Delayed arterial healing at culprit sites after drug-eluting stent (DES) placement for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is associated with increased risk of late stent thrombosis. The Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry was established in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Korea Circulation Society. Between November 2005 and December 2016, more than 62,000 patients were registered...

BACKGROUND Guided bone regeneration (GBR) using a non-absorbable barrier has provided clinicians the ability to place implants in sites compromised by insufficient bone, including immediate extraction sites. Recent evidence suggests that successful GBR outcomes may be possible using bioabsorbable polymer barriers. METHODS This report presents a case series of 9 patients with 8 fenestration an...

Coronary drug-eluting stents are commonplace in clinical practice with acceptable safety and efficacy. Preclinical evaluation of novel drug-eluting stent technologies has great importance for understanding safety and possibly efficacy of these technologies, and well-defined preclinical testing methods clearly benefit multiple communities within the developmental, testing, and clinical evaluatio...

Sakata R, +Fujioka H, Inui A, Toyokawa N, Nagura I, Kokubu T, Makino T, Kaneko H, Satake M, Kurosaka M 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan, + Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan. Department of Tissue Engineering Development, Teijin Technology Innovation Center, TEIJIN Limited, Japan Senior aut...