Vascugraft® polyurethane arterial prosthesis as femoro-popliteal and femoro-peroneal bypasses in humans: Pathological, structural and chemical analyses of four excised grafts

Biomaterials

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 113-124

  Zhang, Ze ^a   Marois, Y ^a   Guidoin, R G ^a,d   Bull, P ^b   Marois, M ^a   How, T ^c   Laroche, G ^a   King, M W ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical characterizations; Human implantation; Polyurethane; Vascugraft ; Vascular prostheses

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; POLYURETHAN; BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN;

ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; EXPLANT; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TIME; VASCULAR DISEASE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMORAL ARTERY; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE;

ANIMALIA;

BIODEGRADATION; BLOOD VESSELS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; GRAFTS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); JOINTS (ANATOMY); LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; POLYURETHANES;

ANASTOMOTIC MISMATCH; VASCUGRAFT POLYURETHANE ARTERIAL PROSTHESIS;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARTERIES; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; COLLAGEN; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; LEG; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; POLYURETHANES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 0030614329     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(96)00054-3     Document Type: Article

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