Journal article
Stents for airway strictures: selection and results
Journal of thoracic disease, Vol.9(Suppl 2), pp.S116-S121
03/01/2017
DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2017.01.56
PMCID: PMC5384891
PMID: 28446974
Abstract
Airway stents can provide effective and timely relief in patients with central airway obstruction. Silicone based stents are the most commonly used airway stents worldwide with a long track record of safety. Metallic stents continue to evolve from the earliest uncovered versions to a variety of newly designed covered stents. Despite the availability of a variety of stent materials and designs, minimal advances have been made towards innovation in stent technology and an ideal stent has unfortunately not yet been developed. Nevertheless, the first generation of biodegradable airway stents are available, work on drug-eluted stents is in the pipeline and three-dimensional printing of a customized airway stent may be the future. In this review, we discuss selection and results for most commonly utilized airway stents.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Stents for airway strictures: selection and results
- Creators
- Adil Ayub - Mount Sinai Health SystemAdnan M. Al-Ayoubi - Mt Sinai Hlth Syst, Dept Thorac Surg, Icahn Sch Med, New York, NY USAFaiz Y. Bhora - Mount Sinai Health System
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of thoracic disease, Vol.9(Suppl 2), pp.S116-S121
- DOI
- 10.21037/jtd.2017.01.56
- PMID
- 28446974
- PMCID
- PMC5384891
- NLM abbreviation
- J Thorac Dis
- ISSN
- 2072-1439
- eISSN
- 2077-6624
- Publisher
- PIONEER BIOSCIENCE PUBL CO
- Number of pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984701723402771
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