Balloon-based drug coating delivery to the artery wall is dictated by coating micro-morphology and angioplasty pressure gradients
Abraham R. Tzafriri, Benny Muraj, Fernando García-Polite, Antonio G. Salazar-Martín, Peter Markham, Brett G. Zani, Anna Spognardi, Mazen Albaghdadi, Steve Alston, Elazer R. Edelman
Topics & Concepts
Materials scienceCoatingAngioplastyBalloonDrug deliveryMorphology (biology)Biomedical engineeringCardiologyComposite materialMedicineNanotechnologyBiologyGeneticsCoronary Interventions and DiagnosticsElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsTribology and Lubrication Engineering