Percutaneous endovascular delivery of calcium chloride to the intact porcine carotid artery: A novel animal model of arterial calcification.
Sérgio R AbrãoCarlos A H de Magalhães CamposRafael CavalcanteJeroen EggermontPedro LemosAlex LedermanErasmo S da SilvaRicardo AunSergio Q BelczakAlexandre AbizaidFábio Sândoli de Brito JuniorPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2020)
We developed a nonexpensive, reproducible model of early carotid medial calcification in pigs. Our model has the potential to help the development of research to unravel mechanisms underlying arterial calcification, the use of current or new devices to treat calcified lesions as well as to serve as an option for training interventionalists on the use of such devices.