Yoriyasu Suzuki, MD

Drug-Eluting Stent Strut Distribution: A Comparison between Cypher‚Ñ¢ and Taxus¬Æ by Optical Coherence Tomography

08/01/2008

Recent studies have shown that the use of drug-eluting stents (DES) to deliver antiproliferative agents directly to the vessel wall dramatically reduces the rate of restenosis. However, differences among stent designs, drug delivery vehicles,...

Recent studies have shown that...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Comparison of Nonuniform Strut Distribution between Two Drug-Eluting Stent Platforms

08/01/2008

Yoriyasu Suzuki , MD;

Fumiaki Ikeno , MD;

Takao Hasegawa , MD;

Junya Ako , MD, PhD;

Yasuhiro Honda , MD;

Peter J. Fitzgerald , MD, PhD;

Katsuhisa Waseda , MD, PhD;

Drug-eluting stents have substantially reduced the restenosis rate.1–4 However, restenosis after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation is resistant to repeat percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and remains an important clinical...

Drug-eluting stents have...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Rapid Communication

The Porcine Restenosis Model Using Thermal Balloon Injury:
Comparison with the Model by Coronary Stenting

08/01/2008

Yoriyasu Suzuki , MD;

Jennifer K. Lyons , RVT;

Alan C. Yeung , MD;

Fumiaki Ikeno , MD;

Animal models have assumed a central position in understanding the mechanisms of angioplasty, stenting, restenosis and development of medical devices.1–5 The porcine coronary vascular injury models, by either stenting or overstretching injury...

Animal models have assumed a...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology