Cardiovascular disease is anticipated to remain the leading cause of death globally. Due to
the current problems connected with using autologous arteries for bypass surgery …

Introduction: Synthetic vascular grafts have been widely used in clinical practice for aortic
replacement surgery. Despite their high rates of surgical success, they remain significantly …

Small-diameter vascular scaffolds have been developed by a co-electrospinning method
using polyethylene terephthalate (PCL) and elastic polytetrafluoroethylene (PU) as …

Nanomaterial structures are highly contributive in tissue engineering vascular scaffolds
(TEVS) due to their ability to mimic the nanoscale dimension of the natural extracellular …

Introduction There is a growing need for small-diameter (< 6 mm) off-the-shelf synthetic
vascular conduits for different surgical bypass procedures, with actual synthetic conduits …

The material design of vascular grafts is required for their application in the health sector.
The use of polyurethanes (PUs) in vascular grafts intended for application in the body …

Compliance mismatch between an arteriovenous dialysis graft (AVG) and the connected
vein is believed to result in disturbed haemodynamics around the graft–vein anastomosis …

Disturbed shear stress is thought to be the driving factor of neointimal hyperplasia in blood
vessels and grafts, for example in hemodialysis conduits. Despite the common occurrence of …

Polyurethane (PU) is one of the most popular polymeric materials and has gained great
attention in biomedical fields owing to its extensive structure/property diversity. Among all …

The lack of suitable autologous grafts and poor compliance of existing prostheses have
prompted the study of novel materials for vascular graft design. Polyurethanes (PUs) were …