Enhanced intimal thickening of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene grafts coated with fibrin or fibrin-releasing vascular endothelial growth factor in the pig carotid artery interposition model
Published inJournal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, vol. 133, no. 5, p. 1163-1170
Publication date2007
Abstract
Keywords
- Animals
- Blood Vessel Prosthesis
- Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation
- Capillaries/pathology
- Carotid Arteries/pathology/surgery
- Coated Materials, Biocompatible
- Fibrin/pharmacology
- Graft Occlusion, Vascular/pathology
- Immunohistochemistry
- Macrophages/pathology
- Polytetrafluoroethylene
- Sus scrofa
- Tunica Intima/pathology
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/pharmacology
- Vascular Patency
Citation (ISO format)
WALPOTH, Beat et al. Enhanced intimal thickening of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene grafts coated with fibrin or fibrin-releasing vascular endothelial growth factor in the pig carotid artery interposition model. In: Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2007, vol. 133, n° 5, p. 1163–1170. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.01.029
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Identifiers
- PID : unige:35292
- DOI : 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.01.029
- PMID : 17467424
ISSN of the journal0022-5223