Progress toward tissue-engineered heart valves

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Michael Mack. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014.

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. 2014 Apr 8;63(13):1330-1331.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.11.030. Epub 2013 Dec 18.

¹ Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, Baylor Healthcare System, Plano, Texas. Electronic address: Michael.mack@Baylorhealth.edu.

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Keywords: off-the-shelf tissue engineering; self-repair; tissue-engineered heart valves; transcatheter valves; valvular heart disease.

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Transcatheter implantation of homologous "off-the-shelf" tissue-engineered heart valves with self-repair capacity: long-term functionality and rapid in vivo remodeling in sheep.
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