Initial Pediatric Cardiac Experience With Decellularized Allograft Patches

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Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering +17

Tissue Engineering of Heart Valves

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Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering +14

Decellularization reduces calcification while improving both durability and 1-year functional results of pulmonary homograft valves in juvenile sheep

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Medicine, Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery +11

Performance and Morphology of Decellularized Pulmonary Valves Implanted in Juvenile Sheep

Rachael W. Quinn, Stephen L. Hilbert, Arthur A. Bert et al. · The Annals of Thoracic Surgery · 2011 · 63 citations

Medicine, Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery +12

Ovine panel reactive antibody assay of HLA responsivity to allograft bioengineered vascular scaffolds

Ara Ketchedjian, Paula Kreuger, Howard Lukoff et al. · Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 2004 · 24 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering +15