Development of Small Diameter Nanofiber Tissue Engineered Arterial Grafts

The surgical repair of heart and vascular disease often requires implanting synthetic grafts. While synthetic grafts have been successfully used for medium-to-large sized arteries, applications for small diameter arteries (<6 mm) is limited due to high rates of occlusion by thrombosis. Our object...

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Main Authors: Kurobe, Hirotsugu, Maxfield, Mark W., Tara, Shuhei, Rocco, Kevin A., Bagi, Paul S., Yi, Tai, Udelsman, Brooks, Zhuang, Zhen W., Cleary, Muriel, Iwakiri, Yasuko, Breuer, Christopher K., Shinoka, Toshiharu
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4382213/