Objective Many patients who require hemodialysis treatment will often require a prosthetic
graft after multiple surgeries. However, the patency rate of grafts currently available …

Engineered small diameter vascular grafts must closely match mechanical characteristics of
native vessels and exhibit stimulus‐responsive bioactivity. In this study, mechanical …

Background Small diameter (< 6 mm), bioabsorbable, arterial, tissue-engineered vascular
grafts (TEVGs) remain limited by thromboembolism. The objective of this study was to test …

No small‐diameter synthetic graft has yet shown comparable performance to autologous
vessels. Synthetic conduits fail due to their inherent surface thrombogenicity and the …

Introduction To date, clinically available expanded polytetrafluoro-ethylene (ePTFE)
vascular grafts are suboptimal for reconstructing small caliber (D< 6 mm) arteries, owing to …

Purpose The lack of long-term patency of synthetic vascular grafts currently available on the
market has directed research towards improving the performance of small diameter grafts …

There is great clinical demand for synthetic vascular grafts with improved long-term efficacy.
The ideal vascular conduit is easily implanted, nonthrombogenic, biocompatible, resists …

Rapid endothelialization of small-diameter vascular grafts remains a significant challenge in
clinical practice. In addition, compliance mismatch causes intimal hyperplasia and finally …

A new electrospinning approach for fabricating vascular grafts with a layered,
circumferentially aligned, and micro‐wavy fibrous structure similar to natural elastic tissues …

Small caliber vascular grafts represent a challenge to material scientists. In contrast to large
caliber grafts, prostheses with diameter< 6 mm, lead to increased hemodynamic …