The Use of Bioactive Polymers for Intervention and Tissue Engineering: The New Frontier for Cardiovascular Therapy

Drug-coated balloon versus drug-eluting stent for treating de novo coronary lesions in large vessels: a meta-analysis of clinical trials

(2020) Yaowang Lin et al.   HERZ

Drug‐Coated balloons vs drug‐eluting stents for the treatment of small coronary artery disease: A meta‐analysis of randomized trials

(2020) Jorge Sanz Sánchez et al.   CATHETERIZATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS

Recent Advances on Nanofiber Fabrications: Unconventional State-of-the-Art Spinning Techniques

(2020) Jinkyu Song et al.   Polymers

Association of Changes in Cardiovascular Health Metrics and Risk of Subsequent Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality

(2020) Bamba Gaye et al.   Journal of the American Heart Association

Preventing treatment failures in coronary artery disease: what can we learn from the biology of in-stent restenosis, vein graft failure, and internal thoracic arteries?

(2019) Cristiano Spadaccio et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Clinical Outcomes Prior to and Following Complete Everolimus-Eluting Bioresorbable Scaffold Resorption: Five-Year Follow-Up From the ABSORB III Trial

(2019) Dean J. Kereiakes et al.   CIRCULATION

Time-Varying Outcomes With the Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold During 5-Year Follow-up

(2019) Gregg W. Stone et al.   JAMA Cardiology

Comparative efficacy of two paclitaxel-coated balloons with different excipient coatings in patients with coronary in-stent restenosis

(2018) Roisin Colleran et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

New Three-Dimensional Poly(decanediol-co-tricarballylate) Elastomeric Fibrous Mesh Fabricated by Photoreactive Electrospinning for Cardiac Tissue Engineering Applications

(2018) Hesham Ismail et al.   Polymers

Very Late Scaffold Thrombosis of Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold

(2017) Toshiaki Toyota et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions

Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials Comparing Biodegradable Polymer Drug-Eluting Stent to Second-Generation Durable Polymer Drug-Eluting Stents

(2017) Georges El-Hayek et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions

2-year outcomes with the Absorb bioresorbable scaffold for treatment of coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of seven randomised trials with an individual patient data substudy

(2017) Ziad A Ali et al.   LANCET

Implantation of a Poly-l-Lactide GCSF-Functionalized Scaffold in a Model of Chronic Myocardial Infarction

(2017) Cristiano Spadaccio et al.   Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research

Preparation of a Microporous Polyurethane Film with Negative Surface Charge for siRNA Delivery via Stent

(2017) Il-Hoon Cho et al.   International Journal of Polymer Science

Drug-Eluting Stent Design is a Determinant of Drug Concentration at the Endothelial Cell Surface

(2016) Taewon Seo et al.   ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Cells and extracellular matrix interplay in cardiac valve disease: because age matters

(2016) Cristiano Spadaccio et al.   BASIC RESEARCH IN CARDIOLOGY

Advances in stent-mediated gene delivery

(2016) Muhammad Yasir Adeel et al.   Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery

Comparison of first- and second-generation drug-eluting stent efficacies for treating left main and/or three-vessel disease: a propensity matched study

(2016) Norihiro Kobayashi et al.   HEART AND VESSELS

Serial Multimodality Imaging and 2-Year Clinical Outcomes of the Novel DESolve Novolimus-Eluting Bioresorbable Coronary Scaffold System for the Treatment of Single De Novo Coronary Lesions

(2016) Alexandre Abizaid et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions

Biomechanics drive histological wall remodeling of neoaortic root: A mathematical model to study the expression levels of ki 67, metalloprotease, and apoptosis transition

(2016) Francesco Nappi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

Therapeutic Effect of Akt1 siRNA Nanoparticle Eluting Coronary Stent on Suppression of Post-Angioplasty Restenosis

(2016) Hui-Lian Che et al.   Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

A Polylactide Bioresorbable Scaffold Eluting Everolimus for Treatment of Coronary Stenosis

(2016) Patrick W. Serruys et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Compliance mismatch and compressive wall stresses drive anomalous remodelling of pulmonary trunks reinforced with Dacron grafts

(2016) Francesco Nappi et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Safety and performance of the second-generation drug-eluting absorbable metal scaffold in patients with de-novo coronary artery lesions (BIOSOLVE-II): 6 month results of a prospective, multicentre, non-randomised, first-in-man trial

(2016) Michael Haude et al.   LANCET

1-year outcomes with the Absorb bioresorbable scaffold in patients with coronary artery disease: a patient-level, pooled meta-analysis

(2016) Gregg W Stone et al.   LANCET

Combined additive manufacturing approaches in tissue engineering

(2015) S.M. Giannitelli et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Stress-shielding, growth and remodeling of pulmonary artery reinforced with copolymer scaffold and transposed into aortic position

(2015) Francesco Nappi et al.   Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Introducing bioresorbable scaffolds into the show. A potential adjunct to resuscitate Ross procedure

(2015) Cristiano Spadaccio et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Long-Term Safety of Drug-Eluting and Bare-Metal Stents

(2015) Tullio Palmerini et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Very Late Scaffold Thrombosis

(2015) Lorenz Räber et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

The Ross procedure: Underuse or under-comprehension?

(2015) Francesco Nappi et al.   JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

An experimental model of the Ross operation: Development of resorbable reinforcements for pulmonary autografts

(2015) Francesco Nappi et al.   JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Polymer-free Drug-Coated Coronary Stents in Patients at High Bleeding Risk

(2015) Philip Urban et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Optimization of Drug Delivery by Drug-Eluting Stents

(2015) Franz Bozsak et al.   PLoS One

Modeling the transport of drugs eluted from stents: physical phenomena driving drug distribution in the arterial wall

(2014) Franz Bozsak et al.   Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Executive Summary: Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2014 Update

(2014) Alan S. Go et al.   CIRCULATION

Nanoparticle Drug- and Gene-eluting Stents for the Prevention and Treatment of Coronary Restenosis

(2014) Rui-Xing Yin et al.   Theranostics

Dual Drug-Eluting Stents Coated with Multilayers of Hydrophobic Heparin and Sirolimus

(2013) Liang-Cheng Su et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Bioactive coronary stent coating based on layer-by-layer technology for siRNA release

(2013) S. Hossfeld et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Current trends in the design of scaffolds for computer-aided tissue engineering

(2013) S.M. Giannitelli et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Dual-delivery of VEGF and PDGF by double-layered electrospun membranes for blood vessel regeneration

(2013) Hong Zhang et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Risk of Stent Thrombosis Among Bare-Metal Stents, First-Generation Drug-Eluting Stents, and Second-Generation Drug-Eluting Stents

(2013) Tomohisa Tada et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions

Two-Year Outcomes After First- or Second-Generation Drug-Eluting or Bare-Metal Stent Implantation in All-Comer Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

(2013) Marco Valgimigli et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions

Heparin-Bonded Covered Stents Versus Bare-Metal Stents for Complex Femoropopliteal Artery Lesions

(2013) Johannes Lammer et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Clinical Outcomes With Bioabsorbable Polymer- Versus Durable Polymer-Based Drug-Eluting and Bare-Metal Stents

(2013) Tullio Palmerini et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Heparin-bonded, Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene-lined Stent Graft in the Treatment of Femoropopliteal Artery Disease: 1-Year Results of the VIPER (Viabahn Endoprosthesis with Heparin Bioactive Surface in the Treatment of Superficial Femoral Artery Obstructive Disease) Trial

(2013) Richard R. Saxon et al.   JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

Abluminal biodegradable polymer biolimus-eluting stent versus durable polymer everolimus-eluting stent (COMPARE II): a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial

(2013) Pieter Cornelis Smits et al.   LANCET

Biolimus-eluting biodegradable polymer-coated stent versus durable polymer-coated sirolimus-eluting stent in unselected patients receiving percutaneous coronary intervention (SORT OUT V): a randomised non-inferiority trial

(2013) Evald Høj Christiansen et al.   LANCET

Safety and efficacy outcomes of first and second generation durable polymer drug eluting stents and biodegradable polymer biolimus eluting stents in clinical practice: comprehensive network meta-analysis

(2013) E. P. Navarese et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Short- and Long-Term Outcomes With Drug-Eluting and Bare-Metal Coronary Stents

(2012) Sripal Bangalore et al.   CIRCULATION

Influence of a layer-by-layer-assembled multilayer of anti-CD34 antibody, vascular endothelial growth factor, and heparin on the endothelialization and anticoagulation of titanium surface

(2012) Shihui Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

A Multicenter Randomized Trial Comparing Amphilimus- With Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents in De Novo Native Coronary Artery Lesions

(2012) Didier Carrié et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

A Randomized, Multicenter, Single-Blinded Trial Comparing Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon Angioplasty With Plain Balloon Angioplasty in Drug-Eluting Stent Restenosis

(2012) Harald Rittger et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Stent thrombosis and major clinical events at 3 years after zotarolimus-eluting or sirolimus-eluting coronary stent implantation: a randomised, multicentre, open-label, controlled trial

(2012) Edoardo Camenzind et al.   LANCET

Paclitaxel-eluting balloons, paclitaxel-eluting stents, and balloon angioplasty in patients with restenosis after implantation of a drug-eluting stent (ISAR-DESIRE 3): a randomised, open-label trial

(2012) Robert A Byrne et al.   LANCET

Electrospun Hydroxyapatite-Functionalized PLLA Scaffold: Potential Applications in Sternal Bone Healing

(2011) Alberto Rainer et al.   ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Four-Year Follow-Up of TYPHOON (Trial to Assess the Use of the CYPHer Sirolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent in Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated With BallOON Angioplasty)

(2011) Christian Spaulding et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions

The Pathology of Neoatherosclerosis in Human Coronary Implants

(2011) Gaku Nakazawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Hydrodynamic Effects of Compliance Mismatch in Stented Arteries

(2010) N. K. C. Selvarasu   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

A G-CSF functionalized scaffold for stem cells seeding: a differentiating device for cardiac purposes

(2010) Cristiano Spadaccio et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Randomized Trial of Paclitaxel- Versus Sirolimus-Eluting Stents for Treatment of Coronary Restenosis in Sirolimus-Eluting Stents

(2010) Julinda Mehilli et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Growth factor delivery-based tissue engineering: general approaches and a review of recent developments

(2010) K. Lee et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Paclitaxel-induced Arterial Wall Toxicity and Inflammation: Tissue Uptake in Various Dose Densities in a Minipig Model

(2010) Boris Radeleff et al.   JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

Heparin-releasing scaffold for stem cells: a differentiating device for vascular aims

(2010) Cristiano Spadaccio et al.   Regenerative Medicine

Combining electrospinning and fused deposition modeling for the fabrication of a hybrid vascular graft

(2010) M Centola et al.   Biofabrication

Poly-l-Lactic Acid/Hydroxyapatite Electrospun Nanocomposites Induce Chondrogenic Differentiation of Human MSC

(2009) Cristiano Spadaccio et al.   ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

The effect of a layer-by-layer chitosan–heparin coating on the endothelialization and coagulation properties of a coronary stent system

(2009) Sheng Meng et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Randomized Comparison of the Nobori Biolimus A9-Eluting Coronary Stent With the Taxus Liberté Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent in Patients With Stenosis in Native Coronary Arteries

(2009) Bernard Chevalier et al.   Circulation-Cardiovascular Interventions

Lowering the Dose of Sirolimus, Released From a Nonpolymeric Hydroxyapatite Coated Coronary Stent, Reduces Signs of Delayed Healing

(2009) Wim J. van der Giessen et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions

1-Year Results of the Hydroxyapatite Polymer-Free Sirolimus-Eluting Stent for the Treatment of Single De Novo Coronary Lesions

(2009) J. Ribamar Costa et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions

Implantation of paclitaxel-eluting stent impairs the vascular compliance of arteries in porcine coronary stenting model

(2008) Serdar Farhan et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Delayed Arterial Healing and Increased Late Stent Thrombosis at Culprit Sites After Drug-Eluting Stent Placement for Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients

(2008) Gaku Nakazawa et al.   CIRCULATION

A Novel Bioresorbable Polymer Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent for the Treatment of Single and Multivessel Coronary Disease

(2008) Mitchell W. Krucoff et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Biolimus-eluting stent with biodegradable polymer versus sirolimus-eluting stent with durable polymer for coronary revascularisation (LEADERS): a randomised non-inferiority trial

(2008) Stephan Windecker et al.   LANCET