Definition of "endothelialization" []

• The formation of endothelial tissue (noun)

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• "On the one hand, the “endothelialization” of a stent makes it so that the stent, and especially the disrupted vessel wall under it, was no longer thrombogenic."
• "Despite the use of drug eluting stents, endothelialization eventually takes place and even patients with drug-eluting stents only have to stay on medicines like Plavix or aspirin for at most a few months."
• "Juan F Granada, MD, medical director of the Skirball Center for Cardiovascular Research at Columbia University Medical Center, presented results from pre-clinical models demonstrating the effectiveness in combining OrbusNeich's pro-healing cell capture with their fully absorbable drug elution technologies to address the shortcomings with current drug eluting stents (DES), namely the safety concerns associated with the delay and often lack of endothelialization."