Toshiya Fujisato, Dohiko Terada, Kenji Minatoya, Kenichi Yoshida, Kazuo Niwaya Akio Kishida, Shigehiro Hashimoto, Takeshi Nakatani, Soichiro Kitamura National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan Japan Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment, Tokyo, Japan Fundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Japan Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan Osaka Institute o...

New opportunities for the design of artificial tissue structures via ice templating and electrospinning are described. Exemplarily, developments of vascular grafts, heart valves and nerve guides will be presented.

OBJECTIVE Nerve-grafting surgery after resection of neuro-vascular bundles during radical prostatectomy is one of the promising resolutions for dilemma between cancer control and functional preservation. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of nerve-grafting surgery on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in localized prostate cancer patients with special interest in the infl...

-Vein graft intimal hyperplasia, due to smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation, remains a limiting factor in long-term vein graft patency. Increased superoxide production regulates SMC mitogenesis and contributes to reduced NO bioactivity in systemic models of vascular disease. We compared superoxide production in experimental venous bypass grafts with ungrafted veins and determined its enzymat...

Despite carefully performed surgery, vascular defects can remain undetected within an arterial reconstruction after blood flow is restored. Failure to recognize technical errors or abnormalities can lead to vessel thrombosis and embolization. For cardiac, carotid or visceral reconstructions these events can be catastrophic. Furthermore, corrections of lesions before graft thrombosis can have a ...

INTRODUCTION Vascular spinal cord injury following coronary bypass grafting surgery is very rare and this is probably one of few reports of a presumptive partial conus medullaris lesion leading to sudden onset bladder and bowel incontinence which was managed using duloxetine, a selective serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. Duloxetine has been used in selected patients with post-pro...

Τransradial artery access has recently gained widespread acceptance as the preferred approach for coronary angiography and interventions, due to its lower incidence of bleeding vascular complications compared transfemoral access. However, thrombotic occlusion radial emerged most common complication this method, impeding use in future creation arteriovenous fistulae hemodialysis patients, or a g...

In coronary artery surgery the superiority of the internal mammary artery graft in 10-year survival was documented in 1986. In 1999 it was demonstrated that death, reoperation and percutaneous transluminary coronary angioplasty were more frequent in patients undergoing single rather than bilateral internal mammary artery grafting. Today coronary artery bypass grafting surgery is challenged by t...

Grafting is particularly important to the cultivation of perennial crops such as grapevine (Vitis vinifera) because rootstocks can provide resistance to soil-borne pests and diseases as well as improve tolerance to some abiotic stresses. Successful grafting is a complex biochemical and structural process beginning with the adhesion of the two grafted partners, followed by callus formation and t...