All-in-one atmospheric pressure plasma jet assisted surface modification of exclusive heart valve, blood vessel and myocardium tissue-engineered scaffolds for an overall heart repair Ghent University
Despite all medicine advances, cardiovascular diseases attacking heart valves, blood vessels and myocardium are still the leading cause of mortality. Given the fact that heart transplants are the only efficient but very tricky therapy, tissue engineering aiming at repairing on-target the damaged heart tissue has emerged. Although promising, current scaffold-based approaches are not fully successful mainly due a suboptimal combination of ...