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2017

Abstract

51 Armaan Akbar Physical Science and Engineering Biomimetic Small Diameter Vascular Graft Armaan Akbar; Matteo Solazzo; Paulo Gonzalez; Daniel Jacobs; Michael Luketich; Rich Hoff, MA; Antonio D'Amore, PhD; William Wagner, PhD Current methods utilized in coronary bypass include the use of synthetic as well as biologic tissue derived small diameter vascular grafts; while relatively effective on the short term, these scaffolds are affected by a number of issues such as: inadequate mechanics or mechanical mismatch, re-stenosis due to intimal hyperplasia or thrombosis. This study aims to introduce a novel processing technique for small-diameter tissue-engineered vascular graft (TEVG) mimicking the three-layer native vessel structure and mechanics. The current prototype combines the synthetic and biologic graft approach with a three-layer structure of anatomically distinct components designed to duplicate native tissue heterogeneity. The three graft layers are processed with electrosp...

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