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ArticleJournal of functional biomaterials2017

Fabrication and Optimal Design of Biodegradable Polymeric Stents for Aneurysms Treatments.

Xue Han, Xia Wu, Michael Kelly, Xiongbiao Chen

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Article in Journal of functional biomaterials, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Shape transformable bifurcated stents.Scientific reports · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xue HanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada. hax538@mail.usask.ca.
Xia WuDivision of Biomedical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada. wuxiayunxin@126.com.
Michael KellyDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada. m.kelly@usask.ca.
Xiongbiao ChenDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada. xbc719@mail.usask.com.
University of Saskatchewan · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in the wall of blood vessels, occurring in major arteries of the heart and brain. Biodegradable polymeric stent-assisted coiling is expected to be the ideal treatment of wide-neck complex aneurysms. This paper presents the development of methods to fabricate and optimally design biodegradable polymeric stents for aneurysms treatment. Firstly, a dispensing-based rapid prototyping (DBRP) system was developed to fabricate coil and zigzag structures of biodegradable polymeric stents. Then, compression testing was carried out to characterize the radial deformation of the stents fabricated with the coil or zigzag structure. The results illustrated the stent with a zigzag structure has a stronger radial stiffness than the one with a coil structure. On this basis, the stent with a zigzag structure was chosen for the development of a finite element model for simulating the real compression tests. The result showed the finite element model of biodegradable polymeric stents is acceptable within a range of radial deformation around 20%. Furthermore, the optimization of the zigzag structure was performed with ANSYS DesignXplorer, and the results indicated that the total deformation could be decreased by 35.7% by optimizing the structure parameters, which would represent a significant advance of the radial stiffness of biodegradable polymeric stents.

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biodegradable polymeric stentsfabricationoptimizationradial stiffnesssimulation

Identifiers

PMID28264515
PMCPMC5371881
OpenAlexW2594200097

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