Analysis of explanted ePTFE cardiovascular grafts (modified BT shunt)

Biomedical Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Doble, Mukesh ^a   Makadia, Nilesh ^b   Pavithran, Sreeja ^b   Kumar, R Suresh ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; FRICTION; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); POLYMERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CHEMICAL CHANGES; CHEMICAL-; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CRYSTALLINITY; EXTERNAL-; HEAT CAPACITIES; INITIAL VALUES; INSOLUBLE PROTEINS; INTERNAL SURFACES; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHANGES; POLYMER STRUCTURES; POLYMER SURFACES; POLYTETRAFLUROETHYLENE; SAMPLE SIZES; SURFACE CHANGES; TOTAL ELONGATION; VASCULAR GRAFTING;

GRAFTS;

POLITEF; POLYMER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; BIOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART GRAFT; HUMAN; HYDROPHILICITY; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLITEF IMPLANT; TENSILE STRENGTH; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT; MATERIALS TESTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSTHESIS;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 52649113385     PISSN: 17486041     EISSN: 1748605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-6041/3/3/034118     Document Type: Article

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