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