Vascular stents are an essential tool in cardiovascular interventional therapy, and their demand is growing with the increasing incidence of cardiovascular diseases. Compared with permanent stents, which are prone to in-stent restenosis, and drug-eluting stents, which may cause late stent thrombosis, biodegradable stents offer advantages. After providing early radial support to prevent elastic recoil, biodegradable stents gradually degrade, allowing the vessel to regain its natural physiological contractility and undergo positive remodeling. A review of the current mainstream biodegradable metal stents, magnesium-based, iron-based, and zinc-based alloys, shows promising findings in both preclinical and clinical research. Magnesium-based stents exhibit good operability and low thrombosis rates, but their limitations include rapid degradation, hydrogen evolution, and significant pH changes in the microenvironment. Iron-based stents demonstrate excellent mechanical strength, formability, biocompatibility, and hemocompatibility, but their slow corrosion rate hampers broader clinical application; accelerating degradation remains key. Zinc-based alloys have a moderate degradation rate but relatively low mechanical strength; enhancing stent strength by alloying with other elements is the main improvement direction for zinc-based stents.
Humans ; Absorbable Implants ; Stents ; Alloys/chemistry* ; Magnesium/chemistry* ; Biocompatible Materials/chemistry* ; Zinc/chemistry* ; Drug-Eluting Stents ; Iron/chemistry* ; Metals/chemistry*

Objective To observe the effect of heat stress on plasma cGMP and hemodynamics in animals with chronic heart failure. Methods Coronary arteries of twenty-five rabbits were ligated to set up the animal model of heart failure and other five rabbits only received thoractomy as sham group. Eight weeks after coronary artery ligation, they are randomly divided into heat stress (HS) group, control group, HS+L-NAME group, and non-HS+L-NAME group and non-HS+L-Arg group, each group containing 5 animals. Hemodynamic indices and plasma levels of NOS and cGMP were measured. Results Hemodynamics of all 25 rats received operation was poorer compared with the rats of sham group (P