Drug-device combinations for chronic diseases /

• Other Authors: Lyu, SuPing (Editor), Siegel, Ronald Alan (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2016]
• Series: Wiley-Society for Biomaterials series.
• Subjects: Chronic Disease > drug therapy.; Drug Delivery Systems > instrumentation.; Chronic diseases.; Drug delivery systems.; MEDICAL / Pharmacology; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Addressing medical device challenges with drug/device combinations
• Historical survey of drug delivery devices
• Development of combination product drug delivery systems
• Drug-material interactions, materials selection, and manufacturing methods
• Steroid releasing lead
• Thromboresistant vascular graft
• Device-enabled drug infusion therapies
• Promus element plus, a drug eluting stent
• Infuse bone graft.