TY - JOUR
T1 - Properties and challenges in materials used as vascular and endovascular devices
AU - Lejay, A.
AU - Georg, Y.
AU - Dieval, F.
AU - Heim, F.
AU - Tartaglia, E.
AU - Thaveau, F.
AU - Le Magnen, J. F.
AU - Durand, B.
AU - Chakfé, N.
PY - 2013/2
Y1 - 2013/2
N2 - In the last decades, main evolutions in the field of vascular surgery have been correlated to the development of devices allowing more reliable and safe sustainable treatment. First devices that have been proposed were vascular prostheses made of polymeric materials. The second generation of devices was stents made of metals and alloys. The third generation, endografts, associated these both materials. Materials used as vascular and endovascular devices must meet a number of requirements based on dimensional, physical and mechanical criteria. Ideally, they should demonstrate a behavior as close as possible as that of human arteries in terms of mechanical properties such as compliance, long-term durability, and in terms of biological properties such as biocompatibility, luminal surface healing and thrombogenicity. We propose in the present manuscript a review of properties of materials currently used for the construction of vascular and endovascular devices, future challenges in the fields of new materials and scientific approaches and tests to understand and predict the behavior of the next generations of devices.
AB - In the last decades, main evolutions in the field of vascular surgery have been correlated to the development of devices allowing more reliable and safe sustainable treatment. First devices that have been proposed were vascular prostheses made of polymeric materials. The second generation of devices was stents made of metals and alloys. The third generation, endografts, associated these both materials. Materials used as vascular and endovascular devices must meet a number of requirements based on dimensional, physical and mechanical criteria. Ideally, they should demonstrate a behavior as close as possible as that of human arteries in terms of mechanical properties such as compliance, long-term durability, and in terms of biological properties such as biocompatibility, luminal surface healing and thrombogenicity. We propose in the present manuscript a review of properties of materials currently used for the construction of vascular and endovascular devices, future challenges in the fields of new materials and scientific approaches and tests to understand and predict the behavior of the next generations of devices.
KW - Endovascular procedures
KW - Vascular access devices
KW - Vascular surgical procedures
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M3 - Review article
C2 - 23443602
AN - SCOPUS:84876304233
VL - 54
SP - 167
EP - 182
JO - Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
JF - Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
SN - 0021-9509
IS - 1 SUPPL.1
ER -