title: Crystalline coating of rapamycin onto a stent: process development and characterization.
abstract: Currently marketed drug eluting stents (DES) are mainly matrix based systems, with drug entrapped in a carrier system. However, biocompatibility and other issues are associated with these matrix carrier systems. An alternate approach is the use of carrier-free DES, yet preventing functionalities of the carrier. Considering this, the objective of the present contribution is to develop a novel surface crystallization procedure for rapamycin (RM) coating on metallic stent. The physicochemical principles of the crystallization and key process parameters were extensively studied for fabrication of controllable and homogeneous crystalline coatings on stent scaffolds. Stents loaded with nearly 100 μg RM were chosen as a potential therapeutic device with multilayer coating of thickness 3-5 μm. In vitro RM release from these coated stents showed constant RM release for over 90 days and stability studies proves stability of developed RM coating when exposed to different storage condition for 6 months. In conclusion, developed crystallization process was found effective for fabrication of DES with stable coating. This process has wide applications and can be further implemented for other drugs for effective local drug delivery from implantable medical devices.
authors: Institute of Drug Research, School of Pharmacy-Faculty of Medicine, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and The Alex Grass and David Bloom Centers for Drug Design & Synthesis and Pharmaceutics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
authors: Shady
authors: S
authors: Farah
authors: Wahid
authors: W
authors: Khan
authors: Abraham J
authors: AJ
authors: Domb
mesh_terms: D002857:Chromium; D003035:Cobalt; D003460:Crystallization; D054855:Drug-Eluting Stents; D018625:Microscopy, Atomic Force; D033362:Powder Diffraction; D020123:Sirolimus / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D002857:Chromium; D003035:Cobalt; D020123:Sirolimus