Definition of "neointimal" [neointimal]

• Of or pertaining to the neointima (adjective)

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• "From a mechanistic point of view, it seems that the addition of drugs to the stents worked to prevent the over-exuberant growth of intimal cells onto the stents causing early restenosis in the six month time frame but also may have overdone it in some patients leading to inadequate neointimal coverage of the DES and late thrombosis of the stent."
• "Genous pro-healing technology for rapid endothelial coverage with an abluminal sirolimus drug elution for the control of neointimal proliferation, is currently under clinical investigation."
• "Stent, or Combo Stent, which combines the Genous pro-healing technology for rapid endothelial coverage with an abluminal sirolimus drug elution for the control of neointimal proliferation."