Numerical Simulation of Stent Angioplasty with Predilation: An Investigation into Lesion Constitutive Representation and Calcification Influence

It is acceptable clinical practice to predilate a severely occluded vessel to allow better positioning of endovascular stents, and while the impact of this intervention has been examined for aggregate response in animals there has been no means to examine whether there are specific vessels that migh...

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Main Authors: McGarry, J. P. (Author), McHugh, P. E. (Author), Conway, Claire (Contributor), Edelman, Elazer R (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (Contributor), Harvard University- (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag, 2017-08-23T19:01:18Z.
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