Compliance as a factor effecting the patency of a copolyurethane vascular graft
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
- Vol. 12 (3) , 337-345
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jbm.820120307
Abstract
A new solid-wall vascular graft which has a compliance approximating that of the natural artery has been prepared from a copolyether–urethane material. Six of nine of these compliant grafts implanted in dogs were patent on removal, the longest implant time being 77 days for a 4-mm I.D. femoral artery graft. This is in contrast to noncompliant grafts of the same copolyurethane in which failure usually occurred within 48 hr.Keywords
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