Vascular Restoration Therapy: Method to Improve Performance of Fully Bioabsorbable Vascular Stent to Replace Current Metallic Drug Eluting Stent

摘要

Bioabsorbable stent which matches near-term performance of metallic DES but absorbs into the body on longer scales can be successfully prepared through a special stent pattern design, material selection, material morphology and degradation profile control. The clinical trial results using bioabsorbable stent prepared by this new method has shown great safety and efficacy, which showed that it could be superior to current metallic DES and could bring a new revolution to vascular disease treatment - this revolution would be called as Vascular Restoration Therapy.