Arterial Wall Articles & Analysis
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Alucent Biomedical Inc. is rethinking peripheral artery disease (PAD) treatment with a novel natural scaffolding technology based on a light-activated drug therapy delivered via a balloon catheter. ...
It is this protein that inflames the internal walls of the arteries and compromises blood flow in areas that may have a predisposition. ...
The LimFlow procedure can be summarized into the following steps: arterial access in the common femoral artery, venous access in the lateral plantar vein, artery-to-vein crossing, valvulotomy, extension stent graft deployment, and crossing stent graft deployment. ...
Their hope is to ultimately make the well-known ‘stent,’ currently used to maintain diseased arteries and veins open, obsolete. Stents can sometimes trigger an inflammatory response leading to more build-up in the artery that blocks flow, compromising their lasting impact. ...