Chapter1 Introdction for Cardiovascular Disease and Stent/1 1.1 Coronary artery disease/1 1.2 What is astent?/3 1.3 Aim and obiectives /4 Chapter 2 Review for Stent Technology /7 2.1 Development of stents /7 2.1.1 Bare metal stents(BMSs) /7 2.1.2 Drug-eluting stents( DESs) /8 2.1.3 Bioresorbable stents(BRSs) /14 2.1.4 Conclusion/18 2. 2 Materials for bioresorbable stents /19 2.2.1 Comodible metallic alloye /19 2.2.2 Biodegradable polymers /21 2.3 Arteries and atheroselerotic plaques /31 2.3.1 Histological stmuctures /31 2.3. 2 Mechanical behaviour /34 2.3.3 Conclusion /40 2.4 Experimental studies on stents /40 2.4.1 Mechanical behaviour studies /40 2.4.2 Degradation behariour studies /50 2.4.3 In wivg effioacy studies of polymeric stents /33 2.4.4 Conelusion /54 2.5 Computational work /54 2.5.1 Slent expansion modeling /5S 2.5.2 Efects of stent designs /60 2.5.3 jethods for modelling stent expansion /64 2.5.4 Modelling of stent fatigue behawiour /66 2.5.5 Stent degradation modeling /68 2.5.6 Conclusion /70 ����