TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 69. Tissue Engineering for Cardiac Valve Surgery A1 - Gottlieb, Danielle A1 - Mayer, Jr., John E. A2 - Cohn, Lawrence H. PY - 2012 T2 - Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 4e AB - Tissue engineering is a developing science, comprising elements of engineering and biology, whose aim is to build replacement tissues de novo from individual cellular and structural components. The impetus for our work on tissue engineered cardiovascular structures arises from the need to replace cardiovascular tissues that failed to develop normally during embryogenesis or have become dysfunctional as a consequence of disease. In pediatric patients, the cardiovascular structures most often afflicted by congenital anomalies are the cardiac valves and great vessels. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55931220 ER -