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CARDIOVASCULAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
卷 5, 期 3, 页码 270-280出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13239-014-0189-3
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Thermal annealing; PLLA stent; Bioresorbable polymer; Crystallinity
To investigate the influence of elevated annealing temperature (70-90 degrees C) on the mechanical properties of coiled helical PLLA stents. PLLA 0.10 mm fibers and phi 3 mm 9 12 mm stents were fabricated and annealed at 70, 80 and 90 degrees C for 25 min. The mechanical properties of the fibers and the functional characteristics of the stents were measured and compared to a control group processed at 21 degrees C. The stents were mounted, expanded and relaxed using an phi 3 mm 9 2 cm balloon catheter to a maximum balloon pressure of 12 atm. Measurements of stent diameter, length, and the balloon pressure were used to determine the effective circumferential strain, incremental stiffness, elastic recoil, and lengthening of the stents. Stents exhibited progressively higher incremental stiffness with annealing temperature, higher collapse resistance and a reduction in elastic recoil vs. controls. Single fiber mechanical properties decreased as annealing temperature increased. Differential scanning calorimetry revealed crystallinity increased within thermally annealed stent fibers compared with controls. SEM examination indicated thermally annealed stents underwent less twisting than controls during balloon-induced unfurling. Thermal annealing of PLLA fibers and stents between 70 and 90 degrees C induced changes in crystalline structure, thereby favorably influencing fiber stress-strain behavior and stent expansion characteristics.
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