Study Sheds Light On Formation of Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts to Repair Heart Defect
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Yale School of Medicine study provides new understanding of the mechanisms that underlie how tissue engineered vascular grafts (TEVG) work. The paper is published this week in the online Early Edition of ...
Body's own veins provide superior material for aortic grafts
A vascular surgical technique pioneered at UT Southwestern Medical Center and designed to replace infected aortic grafts with the body's own veins has proved more durable and less prone to new infection than similar procedures ...
Blood vessel builders
Futuristic plans to grow replacement organs, bones or muscles for soldiers maimed on the battlefield or patients suffering from debilitating disease or injury won't be anything but science fiction unless new blood vessels ...