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Heart Valves: Developing a Clinically Relevant Tissue Engineered Heart Valve—A Review of Current Approaches (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 24/2017)
Author(s) -
Nachlas Aline L. Y.,
Li Siyi,
Davis Michael E.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advanced healthcare materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.288
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 2192-2659
pISSN - 2192-2640
DOI - 10.1002/adhm.201770124
Subject(s) - heart valve , tissue engineering , biomedical engineering , biomaterial , scaffold , implant , materials science , medicine , cardiology , surgery
Heart valve tissue engineering has the potential to allow the development of living heart valves comprised of cells and biomaterials, and to make them be anatomically patient‐specific. This Review (article No. 1700918 ) describes the current valve prosthesis and its design criteria, and discusses current strategies and future perspectives for valve tissue engineering. The cover image shows a patient with a “living valve implant” that was engineered using 3D bioprinting, biomaterial scaffold, and cells.