Endothelial injury and its repair strategies after intravascular stents implantation / 生物医学工程学杂志

Coronary atherosclerotic heart disease is a serious threat to human life and health. In recent years, the main treatment for it is to implant the intravascular stent into the lesion to support blood vessels and reconstruct blood supply. However, a large number of experimental results showed that mechanical injury and anti-proliferative drugs caused great damage after stent implantation, and increased in-stent restenosis and late thrombosis risk. Thus, maintaining the integrity and normal function of the endothelium can significantly reduce the rate of thrombosis and restenosis. Stem cell mobilization, homing, differentiation and proliferation are the main mechanisms of endothelial repair after vascular stent implantation. Vascular factor and mechanical microenvironmental changes in implanted sites have a certain effect on re-endothelialization. In this paper, the process of injury caused by stent implantation, the repair mechanism after injury and its influencing factors are expounded in detail. And repairing strategies are analyzed and summarized. This review provides a reference for overcoming the in-stent restenosis, endothelialization delay and late thrombosis during the interventional treatment, as well as for designing drug-eluting and biodegradation stents.

Evaluation of hemocompatibility of a new biopolymer material for bioabsorbable stents used for children with vascular stenosis in vitro / 临床儿科杂志

Objective To evaluate the hemocompatibility of polydioxanone(PDO)bioabsorbable stents.Methods Whole blood clotting time,prothrombin time(PT),activated partial thromboplastin time(APTT),platelet adhesion and hemolysis were used to evaluate the hemocompatibility of PDO bioabsorbable stents,and the results were compared with those of 316L stainless stents which are widely used clinically.Results The anticoagulant property of PDO bioabsorbable stents was similar to that of 316L stainless stents.Both PDO bioabsorbable and 316L stainless stents were not prone to activate blood coagulation factors.Compared with 316L stainless stents,PDO bioabsorbable stents had weaker platelet adhesion and activation.Hemolysis ratios of two groups were less than 5%.Conclusions PDO bioabsorbable stents had good hemocompatibility in vitro.