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Surgical Technique for the Implantation of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts and Subsequent In Vivo Monitoring
Published on: April 3, 2015
Gregg W Stone1,2, Takeshi Kimura3, Runlin Gao4
1The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
The first-generation Absorb bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) showed increased risks of target lesion failure and device thrombosis up to 3 years. After 3 years, the excess risk period for BVS appears to end.
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