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Nabil Chakfe: Carotid Stent Design and Antiplatelet Therapy Influence Thrombosis Risk
Aug 27, 2026, 13:04

Nabil Chakfe: Carotid Stent Design and Antiplatelet Therapy Influence Thrombosis Risk

Nabil Chakfe, Professor of Vascular Surgery at Strasbourg University Hospital, shared a post on LinkedIn about a recent article he and his colleagues co-authored, published in Journal of the American Heart Association, adding:

”It was a real pleasure to have been associated in this very interesting research on carotid stent thrombosis risk, using a new macrofluidic model

mimicking the geometry of the human carotid artery-just published in the JAHA-Journal of the American Heart Association.

Interesting results on the role of stent design and associated antiplatelet therapy. The carotid bifurcation proves to be a real hot spot of thrombosis: struts

crossing it create a high-shear environment, and in our series of 147 stented stroke patients, 38.7 percent of those with stent thrombosis had a thrombus in that

plaque-free zone. Aspirin and abciximab reduced thrombus formation-and so did a prototype stent with an opening facing the bifurcation.

Congratulations to Axelle Kern, Pierre Mangin and the whole consortium.”

Title: High‐Shear Environment Promotes Acute Carotid Stent Thrombosis in Patients With Tandem Lesions

Authors: Axelle Y. Kern, Yevgeniy Kreinin, Lise Charle, Camille Robert, Mark Epshtein, Agnese Lucchetti, Caroline Emonts, Tim Bolle, Thomas Gries, Nabil Chakfe, Raoul Pop, Netanel Korin, Pierre H. Mangin

Nabil Chakfe: Carotid Stent Design and Antiplatelet Therapy Influence Thrombosis Risk

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