Foreword
Vascular Restoration Therapy: the fourth revolution in interventional cardiology and the ultimate “Rosy” prophecy
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Part I – Bioabsorbable polymers in medicine
Bioabsorbable polymers in medicine: an overview
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Design principles and performance of bioresorbable polymeric vascular scaffolds
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ABC’s of bioabsorption: application of lactide based
polymers in fully resorbable cardiovascular stents
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The bioabsorption process: tissue and cellular mechanisms
and outcomes
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Part II – Debates
Coating bioabsorption and chronic bare metal scaffolding
versus fully bioabsorbable stent
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Late loss in a disappearing frame of reference: is it still
applicable to fully absorbable scaffolds?
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Vascular restoration therapy: what should the clinical and
angiographic measures for success be?
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Part III – Ploughing new ground, update of the bioabsorbable programmes
Engineering a bioresorbable stent: REVA programme update
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Novel fully bioabsorbable salicylate-based sirolimuseluting
stent
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OrbusNeich fully absorbable coronary stent platform
incorporating dual partitioned coatings
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Challenges related to development of bioabsorbable
vascular stents
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Elixir Medical’s bioresorbable drug eluting stent (BDES)
programme: an overview
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A.R.T.: concept of a bioresorbable stent without drug elution
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NEVO™: a new generation of sirolimus-eluting coronary stent
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Current state of the absorbable metallic (magnesium) stent
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Everolimus-eluting bioabsorbable stent – Abbot Vascular
programme
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Assimilating the current clinical data of fully bioabsorbable
stents
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Ten-year follow-up of the IGAKI-TAMAI stent.
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Supplement F has been released thanks to the support of the following partners:
- Abbott Vascular International
- ART
- Biotronik AG
- Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson Company
- Medtronic
- OrbusNeich


