%0 Journal Article
%T Vascular Grafting Strategies in Coronary Intervention
%A Darryl K. Knight
%A Elizabeth R. Gillies
%A Kibret Mequanint
%J Frontiers in Materials
%D 2014
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fmats.2014.00004
%X With the growing need for coronary revascularizations globally, several strategies to restore blood flow to the heart have been explored. Bypassing the atherosclerotic coronary arteries with autologous grafts, synthetic prostheses, and tissue-engineered vascular grafts continue to be evaluated in search of a readily available vascular graft with clinically acceptable outcomes. The development of such a vascular graft including tissue engineering approaches both in situ and in vitro is herein reviewed, facilitating a detailed comparison on the role of seeded cells in vascular graft patency.
%K coronary artery bypass grafts
%K autologous grafts
%K synthetic prostheses
%K surface passivation
%K tissue-engineered vascular grafts
%K acellular/decellularized scaffolds
%K cell sheet tissue engineering
%K cell seeding
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmats.2014.00004/abstract