Recent Progress in Advanced Hydrogel‐Based Embolic Agents: From Rational Design Strategies to Improved Endovascular Embolization

X Li, MW Ullah, B Li, H Chen - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transcatheter arterial embolization, a minimally invasive treatment to deliberately occlude
the blood vessels, has become a safe and effective procedure for the management of …

Multifunctional microrobot with real-time visualization and magnetic resonance imaging for chemoembolization therapy of liver cancer

G Go, A Yoo, KT Nguyen, M Nan, BA Darmawan… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Microrobots that can be precisely guided to target lesions have been studied for in vivo
medical applications. However, existing microrobots have challenges in vivo such as …

Recent progress in liquid embolic agents

G Ko, JW Choi, N Lee, D Kim, T Hyeon, HC Kim - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Vascular embolization is a non-surgical procedure used to treat diseases or morbid
conditions related to blood vessels, such as bleeding, arteriovenous malformation …

Silk materials at the convergence of science, sustainability, healthcare, and technology

G Guidetti, L d'Amone, T Kim, G Matzeu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Over the past few decades, Bombyx mori silk fibroin has become a ubiquitous material for
applications ranging from biomedical devices to optics, electronics, and sensing, while also …

Phase‐transitional bismuth‐based metals enable rapid embolotherapy, hyperthermia, and biomedical imaging

M Duan, X Zhu, L Fan, Y He, C Yang, R Guo… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Embolization has been an important minimally invasive therapy for occlusion of
malfunctioned vasculature and tumor treatment via target delivering embolic agents. The …

Solvent exchange induced in situ formed hydrogel as liquid embolic agents

M Liu, Y Wang, Y Chen, L Li, Y Sun, Y Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Endovascular embolization can selectively deploy embolic agents into diseased or injured
blood vessels to complete the treatment. However, traditional embolic agents still face …

Radiopaque nanorobots as magnetically navigable contrast agents for localized in vivo imaging of the gastrointestinal tract

CM Oral, M Ussia, M Urso, J Salat… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic nanorobots offer wireless navigation capability in hard‐to‐reach areas of the
human body for targeted therapy and diagnosis. Though in vivo imaging is required for …

Preshaped 4D photocurable ultratough organogel microcoils for personalized endovascular embolization

S Wang, M Qiu, J Liu, T Yin, C Wu, C Huang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Endovascular embolization using microcoils can be an effective technique to treat artery
aneurysms. However, microcoils with fixed designs are difficult to adapt to all aneurysm …

Reshaping de Novo protein switches into bioresponsive materials for biomarker, toxin, and viral detection

L d'Amone, G Matzeu, A Quijano‐Rubio… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
De novo designed protein switches are powerful tools to specifically and sensitively detect
diverse targets with simple chemiluminescent readouts. Finding an appropriate material host …

Globefish‐Inspired Balloon Catheter with Intelligent Microneedle Coating for Endovascular Drug Delivery

X Zhang, Y Cheng, R Liu, Y Zhao - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Balloon catheters exhibit important values in treating cardiovascular diseases, while their
functions are still under improvements. Here, inspired by the thorn‐hiding and deflating …