Rodent Inferior Vena Cava Venoplasty Balloon ModelOscar Moreno 1, Catherine E. Luke 1, Amber Clay 1, Laura Durham 1, Sabrina Rocco 1, Kiran Kumar 1, Nathaniel Parchment 1, David E. Babcock 2, Daniel D. Myers 1, Thomas W. Wakefield 1, Peter Henke 1, Andrea T. Obi 1
1Section of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, 2Surmodics, Inc.
The protocol presents a survival rodent model to test venoplasty balloon (VB) interventions in non-thrombotic, thrombotic, and post-thrombotic deep veins.