Engineering compliant, small diameter vascular prosthesis for bypass grafting

• Main Author: Behr, Jean-Marc Benedikt
• Other Authors: Subbu S. Venkatraman
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2019
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/136554
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Mechanical mismatch between vascular grafts and blood vessels is a major cause of smaller diameter graft (< 6 mm) failure. The fabrication of a compliant small diameter prosthesis remains elusive, due to the idiosyncratic elastic properties of arterial wall tissue. Native blood vessels exhibit a...