Advanced materials for bioresorbable stent for real-time health-care monitoring

Abstract

Purpose: Heart failure, which has a mortality rate higher than most cancers, is among the most important public health issues. Because of this, the fields of medicine and bio-medical engineering have provided a lot of attention to cardiovascular disease. In this review, we present the recent bioresorbable stent technology in aspect of advanced materials to overcome health issues.
 Methodology: This study is based on reviews of Bioresorbable stent (BRS) technology from various technical resources.
 Main Findings: Bioresorbable stent (BRS) shows new class of medical devices in interventional cardiology for the treatment of coronary artery disease. The concept of the BRS is to provide temporal support to the vessel during healing before being degraded and absorbed by the body, eliminating the additional surgical process.
 Implications: With advances in nanofabrication, novel kinds of bioresorbable sensing/wireless component could be fabricated and integrated on the stent without failure when it expanded in the vessel. These technologies will significantly influence future diagnosis technology for future generations.
 Novelty: The technology was introduced to overcome limitations of current developed drug-eluting stents, which are fabricated with metallic materials. With development of medical strategies, we could response earlier for medical issues to prevent recurrence of disease.