Novel compliant and tissue-permeable microporous polyurethane vascular prosthesis fabricated using an excimer laser ablation technique

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-33

  Doi, Kiyoshi ^a   Nakayama, Yasuhide ^a   Matsuda, Takehisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATED MATERIALS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; EXCIMER LASERS; HYDROGELS; LASER ABLATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; POLYURETHANES; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STIFFNESS; TISSUE;

CORONARY ARTERY; ENDOTHELIALIZATION; HYPERPLASIA; INTRALUMINAL PRESSURE; TRANSMURAL TISSUE INGROWTH;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES;

POLYURETHAN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); EXCIMER LASER; GRAFT PATENCY; LASER SURGERY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THROMBOSIS;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMPUTERS; ELASTICITY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GELATIN; HUMANS; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYURETHANES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 0030152429     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(199605)31:1<27::AID-JBM4>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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