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Endothelial retention and phenotype on carbonized cardiovascular implant surfaces.
Biomaterials - 1 Sept 2014
Frendl Christopher M, Tucker Scott M, Khan Nadeem A, Esch Mandy B, Kanduru Shrinidhi, Cao Thong M, García Andrés J, King Michael R, Butcher Jonathan T
Abstract excerpt
Heart valve disease is an increasing clinical burden for which there is no effective treatment outside of prosthetic replacement. Over the last 20 years, clinicians have increasingly preferred the use of biological prosthetics to mechanical valves despite their superior durability because of the...
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