Using Polymeric Scaffolds for Vascular Tissue Engineering
- Alida Abruzzo
- Calogero Fiorica
- Vincenzo Davide Palumbo
- Roberta Altomare
- Giuseppe Damiano
- Maria Concetta Gioviale
- Giovanni Tomasello
- Mariano Licciardi
- Fabio Salvatore Palumbo
- Gaetano Giammona
- Attilio Ignazio Lo Monte
DOIAbstract
With the high occurrence of cardiovascular disease and increasing numbers of patients requiring vascular access, there is a significant need for small-diameter (<6 mm inner diameter) vascular graft that can provide long-term patency. Despite the technological improvements, restenosis and graft thrombosis continue to hamper the success of the implants. Vascular tissue engineering is a new field that has undergone enormous growth over the last decade and has proposed valid solutions for blood vessels repair. The goal of vascular tissue engineering is to produce neovessels and neoorgan tissue from autologous cells using a biodegradable polymer as a scaffold. The most important advantage of tissue-engineered implants is that these tissues can g...
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