A bilayer swellable drug-eluting ureteric stent : localized drug delivery to treat urothelial diseases

• Main Authors: Lim, Wei Shan, Chen, Kenneth, Chong, Tsung Wen, Xiong, Gordon Minru, Birch, William R., Pan, Jisheng, Lee, Bae Hoon, Er, Pei Shan, Salvekar, Abhijit Vijay, Venkatraman, Subbu S., Huang, Yingying
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials; Urological Diseases; Drug-Eluting Stent
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85858; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48293
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A bilayer swellable drug-eluting ureteric stent (BSDEUS) is engineered and implemented, as a sustained drug delivery platform technology that enhances localized drug delivery to the highly impermeable urothelium, for the treatment of urothelial diseases such as strictures and carcinomas. On deployme...