Three-layered synthetic pericardial substitutes reduce postoperative pericardial adhesions

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 18-24

  Kajihara, Noriyoshi ^a   Eto, Masataka ^a   Oishi, Yasuhisa ^a   Boku, Noriko ^a   Kuwahara, Kunio ^b   Nishiguchi, Naoki ^b   Kotani, Chikara ^b   Morita, Shigeki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UBE INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COPOLYMER; POLITEF; POLYESTER; SILICON URETHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EPICARDIUM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART GRAFT; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; IMPLANT; IN VITRO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIUM ADHESION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ADHESIONS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOPROSTHESIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PERICARDIUM; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 11144309509     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.03.010     Document Type: Article

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