Honors Theses
Date of Award
Spring 5-9-2024
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Biomedical Engineering
First Advisor
Troy Drewry
Second Advisor
Thomas Werfel
Third Advisor
Glenn Walker
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
As senior biomedical engineering students at the University of Mississippi, we were tasked with a senior project to find an unmet clinical need in the healthcare industry and design a way to solve it. Our team, consisting of Hannah Dunn, Lexi Graves, Emmie Stevens, and Brennan Toepfer, decided to improve upon current stents to create a stent more suited to treating Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), especially in high-impact areas, such as the back of the knee joint. Stents placed in the back of the knee have a high level of stent failure due to the high movement of the knee needed for everyday tasks, such as walking up the stairs. To address this problem, our team designed a stent with varying flexibility to create a stent that is strong enough to increase blood flow through the artery yet flexible enough to allow for more movement in the knee. We determined that this stent should be composed of nitinol and brainstormed multiple prototypes to optimize the design. Further work must be done to test our product and materials and seek FDA approval before this device can be used in a clinical setting.
Recommended Citation
Stevens, Emmie; Toepfer, Brennan; and Graves, Lexi, "Variable Design Stent to Prevent Stent Failure in Areas of High Mobility in Peripheral Artery Disease Patients" (2024). Honors Theses. 3071.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/3071