(Nanowerk Spotlight) Millions of medical procedures every year rely on stents—small mesh-like tubes—to keep body channels open when diseases threaten to close them off. These stents help restore blood ...
The current debate in cardiology centers on the use of drug-eluting balloons (DEBs) vs drug-eluting stents (DESs) in de novo lesions. However, to reach this conclusion, it must be shown that the ...
Covering stents with hairlike structures called cilia may help keep the implanted medical tubes clean, preventing infection, researchers report April 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...