Abhijit Mondal1, Junhyoung Ha2, Vickie Y Jo3, Fei-Yi Wu4, Aditya K Kaza5, Pierre E Dupont5. 1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: abhijit.mondal@childrens.harvard.edu. 2. Center of Medical Robotics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea. 3. Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass. 4. Department of Surgery, Taipei Veteran General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China. 5. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: We sought to demonstrate in an animal model that helical stents made from a nickel titanium alloy called nitinol (NiTi) and designed for malacic airways could be delivered and removed without significant trauma while minimally impeding mucus clearance during the period of implantation. METHODS: Stents were delivered and removed from the tracheas of healthy 20 kg swine (n = 5) using tools designed to minimize trauma. In 4-week experiments, the stents were implanted on day 0, removed after 3 weeks, and swine were put to death after 4 weeks. Weekly bronchoscopies, radiographs, and mucus clearance examinations were performed in vivo. Hematoxylin and eosin staining and scanning electron microscopy imaging were used to evaluate foreign body response, tracheal tissue reaction, and damage and to measure unciliated regions. RESULTS: In all in vivo experiments, the stent was implanted and removed atraumatically. Mucus clearance was maintained throughout the experiment period. Hematoxylin and eosin-stained slides showed that foreign body response and tracheal tissue damage were localized to the stented subsections. Tracheal tissue reaction and damage was further restricted to the epithelium and submucosal layers. Scanning electron microscopy imaging revealed that the cilia were absent only over the contact area between the trachea and the wire forming the helical stent. CONCLUSIONS: Helical nitinol stents designed to provide radial support for malacic airways were well tolerated in a porcine model, providing for mucus clearance while also enabling atraumatic removal.
OBJECTIVES: We sought to demonstrate in an animal model that helical stents made from a nickel titanium alloy called nitinol (NiTi) and designed for malacic airways could be delivered and removed without significant trauma while minimally impeding mucus clearance during the period of implantation. METHODS: Stents were delivered and removed from the tracheas of healthy 20 kg swine (n = 5) using tools designed to minimize trauma. In 4-week experiments, the stents were implanted on day 0, removed after 3 weeks, and swine were put to death after 4 weeks. Weekly bronchoscopies, radiographs, and mucus clearance examinations were performed in vivo. Hematoxylin and eosin staining and scanning electron microscopy imaging were used to evaluate foreign body response, tracheal tissue reaction, and damage and to measure unciliated regions. RESULTS: In all in vivo experiments, the stent was implanted and removed atraumatically. Mucus clearance was maintained throughout the experiment period. Hematoxylin and eosin-stained slides showed that foreign body response and tracheal tissue damage were localized to the stented subsections. Tracheal tissue reaction and damage was further restricted to the epithelium and submucosal layers. Scanning electron microscopy imaging revealed that the cilia were absent only over the contact area between the trachea and the wire forming the helical stent. CONCLUSIONS: Helical nitinol stents designed to provide radial support for malacic airways were well tolerated in a porcine model, providing for mucus clearance while also enabling atraumatic removal.
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