Tissue engineering of vascular conduits
| Autor: | Sotirios Korossis, K. H. Yow, Joanne Ingram, Eileen Ingham, Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Bioartificial Organs Tissue Engineering business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Ischemia Anastomosis medicine.disease Revascularization Surgery Biomechanical Phenomena Blood Vessel Prosthesis medicine.anatomical_structure Tissue engineering Culture Techniques Medicine Humans Hemodialysis Progenitor cell business Dialysis Blood vessel |
| Zdroj: | The British journal of surgery. 93(6) |
| ISSN: | 0007-1323 |
| Popis: | Background Autologous conduits are not available in up to 40 per cent of patients with arteriopathy who require coronary or lower limb revascularization, and access sites for renal dialysis may eventually become exhausted. Synthetic prostheses achieve a poor patency rate in small-calibre anastomoses. This review examines how vascular tissue engineering may be used to address these issues. Methods A Medline search was performed, using the keywords ‘vascular tissue engineering’, ‘small diameter vascular conduit’, ‘vascular cell biology’, ‘biomechanics’, ‘cell seeding’ and ‘graft endothelialization’. Key references were hand-searched for relevant papers. Results and conclusion In vitro and in vivo approaches are currently being used for guided cell repopulation of both biological and synthetic scaffolds. The major clinical problem has been extended culture time (approximately 6 weeks), which precludes their use in the acute setting. However, recent advances have led not only to improved patency rates for prostheses, but also to a potential reduction in culture time. In addition, increased mobilization of endothelial progenitor cells in the presence of ischaemic tissue may increase the autologous cell yield for scaffold reseeding with further reduction in culture time. |
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