Clinical application of airway bypass with paclitaxel-eluting stents: Early results  Paulo F.G. Cardoso, MD, PhD, Gregory I. Snell, MD, MBBS, FRACP, Peter Hopkins, MD, Gerhard W. Sybrecht, MD, Georgios Stamatis, MD, Alan W. Ng, MD, Philip Eng, MD, FCCP, FACP  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  Volume 134, Issue 4, Pages 974-981 (October 2007) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.05.040 Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Devices used for airway bypass: A, Exhale Doppler Probe; B, Exhale Transbronchial Balloon Dilation Needle; C, Exhale Drug-Eluting Stent mounted on delivery catheter; D, Exhale Drug-Eluting Stent deployed. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2007 134, 974-981DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.05.040) Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 Image of an implanted stent at 6-month follow-up fiberoptic bronchoscopic examination. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2007 134, 974-981DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.05.040) Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions