Tissue engineering.
Tissue engineering concepts will enter the clinical arena in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery soon and at high speed, replacing many procedures currently in practice. Drivers for change are suboptimal implants (heart valves) and missing implants (heart muscle). Medical device industry has to include these new concepts into their future perspectives.
Haverich
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Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany. haverich@thg.mh-hannover.de
D001705:Bioprosthesis; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000639:trends*