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Challenges of and Requirements for Bench Testing in the BRS Era

Challenges of and Requirements for Bench Testing in the BRS Era

European Bifurcation Club 2014 – EBC 2014 – Bordeaux, France

BVS (2): Time for clinical data

Challenges of and Requirements for Bench Testing in the BRS Era

Author: John Ormiston, Mercy Angiography, Interventional Cardiologist Mercy, Auckland, North Shore Hospitals, Professor, University of Auckland School of Medicine

 

SUMMARY

  • Polymeric scaffolds must be tested in water at 37oC
  • We wish to build antomically accurate phantoms hence the coronary atlas project
  • It is difficult with microCT to differentiate scaffold from most phantom materials (determine malapposition) because of similar radiodensity. We have not solved this yet

 

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