Human Internal Mammary Artery (IMA) Transplantation and Stenting: A Human Model to Study the Development of In-Stent RestenosisXiaoqin Hua 1,2, Tobias Deuse 1,2, Evangelos D. Michelakis 3, Alois Haromy 3, Phil S. Tsao 4, Lars Maegdefessel 4, Reinhold G. Erben 5, Claudia Bergow 5, Boris B. Behnisch 6, Hermann Reichenspurner 1,2, Robert C. Robbins 7, Sonja Schrepfer 1,2,7
1University Heart Center Hamburg, TSI-Lab, Germany, 2Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Hamburg, 3Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, Pulmonary Hypertension Program, University of Alberta, 4Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine , 5Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Biophysics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, 6Translumina GmbH, Hechingen, 7Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
This video shows a model to study the development of intimal hyperplasia after stent deployment using a human vessel (IMA) in an immunodeficient rat model.
