RT Book, Section
A1 Gottlieb, Danielle
A1 Mayer, Jr., John E.
A2 Cohn, Lawrence H.
SR Print(0)
ID 55931220
T1 Chapter 69. Tissue Engineering for Cardiac Valve Surgery
T2 Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 4e
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-163310-9
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55931220
RD 2024/09/18
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.