Histologic changes of nonbiodegradable and biodegradable biomaterials used to repair right ventricular heart defects in rats

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1157-1164

  Ozawa, Tsukasa ^a   Mickle, Donald A G ^a   Weisel, Richard D ^a   Koyama, Nobuya ^a   Wong, Harvey ^a   Ozawa, Sumiko ^a   Li, Ren Ke ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; CAPROLACTAM; COLLAGEN; COPOLYMER; GELATIN; LACTIC ACID; POLITEF; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL MIGRATION; DEGRADATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; INFECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THICKNESS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0036894658     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2002.127449     Document Type: Article

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