MAHOROBA, first-in-man study: 6-month results of a biodegradable polymer sustained release tacrolimus-eluting stent in de novo coronary stenoses.

Aims: To report the 4-month angiographic and 6-month clinical follow-up in first-in-man study using the tacrolimus-eluting bioabsorbable polymer-coated cobalt-chromium MAHOROBA stent.

Methods And Results: A total of 47 patients with either stable angina or unstable angina, or silent myocardial ischaemia, based on a de novo coronary stenosis that could be covered by a single 18 mm stent in a native coronary artery with a diameter between 3.0 and 3.

Immobilization of basic fibroblast growth factor on a platinum microcoil to enhance tissue organization in intracranial aneurysms.

Object: To enhance tissue organization in an aneurysm lumen, the authors prepared a platinum microcoil carrying basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and analyzed its effectiveness in the treatment of aneurysms.

Methods: Ultrathin multiorganic layers were assembled on a platinum coil through successive deposition of cationic polyethylenimine and anionic heparin, and then bFGF was immobilized through an affinity interaction with heparin. The bFGF was effectively immobilized on the surface of the platinum coil without deterioration of the coil's mechanical properties.

Vascular endothelial growth factor immobilized on platinum microcoils for the treatment of intracranial aneurysms: experimental rat model study.

Platinum microcoils coated with immobilized recombinant human vascular endothelial growth factor (rhVEGF) were prepared and the effectiveness for the embolization of aneurysms was investigated using a rat model. Platinum coils were prepared by successive deposition of cationic polyethyleneimine and anionic heparin, and VEGF was immobilized through affinity interaction with heparin. Unmodified, heparin-coated, or rhVEGF-immobilized platinum coil segments were inserted into the ligated external carotid arteries at the bifurcation of the common carotid artery (CCA) of adult female rats.

Development of gold stents for the treatment of intracranial aneurysms: an experimental study in a canine model.

Background And Purpose: Gold has often been used in medicine because of its radiopacity and flexibility. To perform stent-supported coil embolization of intracranial aneurysms, we prepared a gold stent and examined its flexibility, radiopacity, and thrombogenic properties in comparison with a stainless steel device implanted in vitro and in vivo.

Methods: Gold stents were prepared by plating gold on stainless steel stents as a template.

In vitro evaluation of newly developed adsorbent for selective removal of glycosylated low-density lipoprotein.

Chronic hyperglycemia leads to the accumulation of nonenzymatically derived glycosylation products on proteins. Such glycosylation products, especially glycosylated low-density lipoprotein (glc-LDL), have been increasingly recognized as factors in the pathogeneses of diabetic complications. A new adsorbent was developed for the selective removal of glc-LDL from plasma.