Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2015, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (8): 1284-1288.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2015.08.025

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Biodegradable magnesium alloy stents: disadvantages and research trends

Tan Zhi-gang, Zhou Qian, Jiang Yu-gang   

  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha 410008, Hunan Province, China
  • Revised:2015-02-05 Online:2015-02-19 Published:2015-02-19
  • Contact: Jiang Yu-gang, M.D., Doctoral supervisor, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha 410008, Hunan Province, China
  • About author:Tan Zhi-gang, Studying for master’s degree, Department of Neurosurgery, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha 410008, Hunan Province, China

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Biodegradable stents are regarded as the fourth revolution in the interventional cardiology after the invention of balloon angioplasty, bare metal stents, and drug-eluting stents. Biodegradable magnesium alloy stent is the focus of biodegradable stent research.

OBJECTIVE: To summarize the application status of biodegradable magnesium alloy stents and to discuss the existing shortcomings and research trends.
METHODS: A computer-based retrieval of PubMed, CNKI and Wanfang databases between January 2001 and November 2014 was performed by the first author, to analyze the research progress about biodegradable magnesium alloy stents.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Studies on biodegradable magnesium alloy stent in vitro is focused on the magnesium alloy degradation speed, biocompatibility, and its effects on vascular endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells. The present findings have shown that the main reason restricts the large-scale clinical application of magnesium alloy stents is the excessive degradation speed. It takes 6-12 months to reconstruction for target vessels after stent implantation. During this period, the stent is expected to provide mechanical support. The existing biodegradable magnesium alloy stents cannot meet this requirement. In order to improve the corrosion resistance ability of magnesium alloy stents, on the one hand, we can consider to seek new alloy elements that posses better corrosion resistance ability; on the other hand, using surface modification techniques such as stent coating to improve the corrosion resistance ability and biocompatibility is a trend of future research and development of magnesium alloy stents.

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:生物材料;骨生物材料; 口腔生物材料; 纳米材料; 缓释材料; 材料相容性;组织工程


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Key words: Magnesium, Alloys, Corrosion

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