Technologies of Diagnosis and Treatment

Absorbable stents: a new era in interventional cardiology

B.M. Todurov, A.V. Khokhlov, A.А. Maksakov, Khorram Sohrab, M.V. Shimanko

Kyiv City Heart Center

The article summarizes the history and evolution of x-ray endovascular technologies. Over three decades of development, interventional cardiology has evolved from the angioplasty stage with a brief and unstable effect until the introduction of bioresorbable stents, which have all advantages of the drug eluting stents, but, in contrast, allow multiple interventions on the same target segments of the coronary arteries. We also give a brief description of the clinical features and techniques of stenting using bioresorbable vascular platforms (scaffolds) at the modern stage.

Key words: bioresorbable stent, bioresorbable vascular platform, scaffold.