OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the effects of systemic prednisone in combination with a bare-metal stent (BMS) or a paclitaxel-eluting stent (Taxus, Boston Scientific Corp., Natick, Massachusetts) on neointimal inhibition and vessel healing in an atherosclerotic rabbit model. BACKGROUND Inflammation plays a critical role in neointimal formation after coronary artery stenting....

ith great interest I read the report by Weissman et al. (1) regarding ntravascular ultrasound (IVUS) analysis of polymer-based aclitaxel-eluting stents. The investigators stated in the text that positive remodeling assessed as the absolute increase in the xternal elastic membrane volume over time tended to be slightly ore prominent with the TAXUS stent (7.66 48.64 mm vs. 12.29 36.05 mm, respect...

Today, drug-eluting stents (DES) are the standard stenting procedure in the USA and in Switzerland. The objective of this analysis is to answer the two questions: what clinically relevant data regarding DES have been published, and is there a clinically relevant difference between the Cypher and the Taxus stents? Twenty-two randomized, controlled studies with a total of 11,118 patients were ide...

AIM To use an indirect comparisons approach and conduct a cost analysis comparing four drug-eluting stents (DES) from a United States (US) payer (i.e., fixed-fee reimbursement) perspective. METHODS AND RESULTS Studies were chosen that randomised two or more DES in diabetic patients. A one-year target lesion revascularisation (TLR) risk for Taxus was first derived. Risk Ratios (RRs) for each D...

Taxus Medio Ambiente. Entidad para el territorio 2022.

Istraživanje vaskularne flore provedeno je na dijelu južnih padina planine Ivanščice iznad grada Zlatara u listopadu 2022. godine. Zabilježeno ukupno 85 svojti unutar 47 porodica. S obzirom broj najzastupljenije su bile porodice Rosaceae, Asteraceae te Aspleniaceae, Fabaceae, Fagaceae i Lamiaceae. Biljne svojte s životni oblik uglavnom hemikriptofiti (35,7 %) fanerofiti (33,3 %), dok terofiti n...

Plant cell aggregates have long been implicated in affecting cellular metabolism in suspension culture, yet the rigorous characterization of aggregate size as a process variable and its effect on bioprocess performance has not been demonstrated. Aggregate fractionation and analysis of biomass-associated product is commonly used to assess the effect of aggregation, but we establish that this met...