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Hyaluronic acid enhancement of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene for small diameter vascular grafts
… late intimal hyperplasia. With the shortage of tissue donors and the limited supply of autologous blood vessels available, there is a need for a small diameter synthetic vascular graft alternative. The aim of this research is to create and characterize ePTFE grafts prepared with hyaluronic acid …
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Functional Status of the Donor Limb of Anterolateral Thigh Flap
The anterolateral thigh flap (ALT) is based on the perforators of the descending branch of the lateral circumflex femoral artery. As there are several anatomical variations of the lateral circumflex arterial system, muscle dissection is unavoidable when skin perforator vessels run through the …
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Destruction of Corneal Nerves Promotes Corneal Allograft Rejection
… success rate of corneal allografts, the donor tissues are not tissue matched to the recipients. With the limited documentation on the histocompatibility gene loci expressed by the corneal tissue donors, it is unknown if the rejection of the initial corneal allograft sensitizes the corneal …