New developments in tissue engineering of vascular prosthetic grafts.
Despite remarkable developments in vascular medicine in the last decades and intensive research on the improvement of bypass materials, an ideal bypass graft comparable to autologous veins or arteries is still not available for peripheral vascular and coronary artery bypass grafting. This article reviews established bypass materials and provides an overview over interesting new technologies particularly those associated with tissue-engineering and those already adopted clinically.
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Hannover Medical School, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover, Germany.
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D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D042783:Endothelial Cells / Q000637:transplantation; D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins; D048091:Guided Tissue Regeneration / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D011108:Polymers; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D054457:Tissue Scaffolds; D016378:Tissue Transplantation / Q000379:methods
D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins; D011108:Polymers