The control system is equipped with a touch screen monitor. Stent manufacturing currently is characterized by multiple manual operations and open-loop, batch-oriented quality assurance procedures. The ...

Comprised of biocompatible metal or biodegradable polymers, stents bear a complex geometry, enabling them to act as effective scaffolds. As they must be able to push against the internal walls of the ...

In his guest blog, biomedical engineer Jeremy Goldman explains why traditional stents need an upgrade and how zinc alloys may be part of the solution. I became interested in developing biodegradable ...

Most people have heard about personalized medicine. But how about personalized medical devices? Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo Ameer and Cheng Sun have teamed up to use 3-D printing to develop ...

Over the past decade, the introduction of drug-eluting stents (DES) has revolutionized the field of interventional cardiology. To massively decrease stent restenosis, the DES-type of stent is coated ...

AZoM speaks with Dr. Jean-Christophe Leroux, Professor of Drug Formulation and Delivery at ETH Zürich. Jean-Christophe and his team have developed a new 3D printed airway stent that will allow for the ...

Coronary stents, those tiny mesh tubes that prop open blocked blood vessels, have helped millions of people avoid invasive and complicated bypass surgery. But stents cease to be needed after the blood ...