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Surgical Technique for the Implantation of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts and Subsequent In Vivo Monitoring
Published on: April 3, 2015
Artificial blood vessels-clinical development of TEVG
Manabu Itoh1, Keiji Kamohara2, Koichi Node3
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, 5-1-1 Nabeshima, Saga, 849-8501, Japan. itomana@cc.saga-u.ac.jp.
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The market for small-diameter vascular grafts (< 6 mm) used in cardiac and vascular surgery has not yet been fully established, as stable long-term patency has not been achieved. This paper focuses on the clinical development of tissue-engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs), especially those that have progressed to clinical trials, and introduces their current status with historical background and future directions. This review was created based on a translation of the Japanese review first reported in the Japanese Journal of Artificial Organs in 2023 (vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 161-166), with some modifications.
