ABSTRACT

Pioneers in the field, the editors have assembled an excellent team of contributors with extensive experience of threatened vessel closure and restenosis, acute thrombosis, hyperproliferative cellular response, stents and local drug delivery. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this reference provides fully up-to-date information on currently available methods of drug delivery, as well as illustrations of drug delivery methods with seventy-five color and seventy-five black and white photos throughout the book. With this impressive presentation of the most up-to-date methods and applications, as well as a range of photographs illustrating their implementation, this guide is an excellent resource for cardiologists, pharmacologists, cardiac surgeons, and trainees.

chapter 9|17 pages

The needle catheter

chapter 11|9 pages

Silicon carbide-coated stents

chapter 12|9 pages

The Carbostent: a Carbofilm™-coatedstent

chapter 14|8 pages

PTFE-covered stents

chapter 15|16 pages

Overview of drug delivery coatings

chapter 18|10 pages

Radioactive stents

part 19|2 pages

Overview of potential drugs to inhibit in-stent restenosis

chapter 20|5 pages

Direct antithrombins

chapter 24|7 pages

The dexamethasone eluting stent

part 36|2 pages

Activated protein C eluting stents

chapter 50|3 pages

Gold-coated stents

chapter 56|6 pages

The FIM trial: sirolimus eluting stents

chapter 57|5 pages

Tacrolimus eluting stents

chapter 64|12 pages

Drug eluting stents: a critical perspective*