Modeling lipid uptake in expanded polytetrafluoroethylene vascular prostheses and its effects on mechanical properties

Artificial Organs

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 334-345

  Mantovani, Diego ^a   Vermette, Patrick ^a   Fiset, Michel ^a   Guidoin, Robert ^a   Laroche, Gaétan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lipid uptake; Mechanical properties; Polytetrafluoroethylene vascular prostheses; Transmural transport

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; TENSILE TESTING;

EXPANDED POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; IMPLANT FAILURES; IN-VITRO MODELS; LIPID CONCENTRATION; LIPID UPTAKES; PHOSPHATIDYL CHOLINE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE VASCULAR PROSTHESIS; RADIAL TRANSPORT; TRANSMURAL TRANSPORT; VASCULAR PROSTHESIS;

POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES;

POLITEF;

ARTERY PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIPID TRANSPORT; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 0034123562     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2000.06485.x     Document Type: Article

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