English to Italian Medical Medical: Cardiology

CLINICAL RESEARCH
Device specificity of vascular healing following implantation of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds and bioabsorbable polymer metallic drug-eluting stents in human coronary arteries

Aims:
We sought to compare vascular healing with bioresorbable everolimus-eluting vascular scaffolds (BVS) and drug-eluting stents with bioabsorbable polymers (BP-DES) at six and 12 months both implanted in the same patients.

The vascular scaffold BVS is a 150-μm thick bioresorbable PLLA scaffold with a 7-μm thick bioresorbable PDLLA coating, which elutes everolimus.
The stent has a stainless steel frame of 120 µm thickness with an abluminal 10 µm coating of PLA as a carrier of Biolimus A9.