[Recent trend development of vascular grafts].
Recent researches on vascular grafts are introduced in this paper. A goal in development of small diameter vascular graft is to obtain their long-term patency and various approaches have been tried. On the other hand, renovation has been made aiming at further refinement of middle to large diameter vascular grafts although their long-term patency have been almost satisfactory. Endothelialization at graft inner surfaces is a very important key to achieve long-term patency and to prevent graft infection. Tissue engineering, which includes technologies on proteins, cells, genes, adhesive proteins, cytokines and so on, has been recently induced in development of vascular grafts. It is expected that excellent vascular grafts would be fabricated in the near future.
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Second Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine.
D000818:Animals; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D014654:Vascular Patency