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Development and Evaluation of 3D-Printed Cardiovascular Phantoms for Interventional Planning and Training

Catheter-based interventions are standard treatment options for cardiovascular pathologies. Therefore, patient-specific models could help training ...

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Combining 3D-Printing and Electrospinning to Manufacture Biomimetic Heart Valve Leaflets

Electrospinning has become a widely used technique in cardiovascular tissue engineering as it offers the possibility to create (micro-)fibrous scaffolds ...

Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Ludwig Maximilians University Munich

The potential to control the rate of replacement of a biodegradable implant by a tissue would be advantageous. Here, we demonstrate that tissue invasion can be tuned through the novel approach of overlaying an enzymatically degradable hydrogel with an increasingly hydrolytically degradable environment. Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogels were formed from varying proportions of PEG-vinyl sulfone and PEG-acrylate (PEG-AC) monomers via a Michael-type addition reaction with a dithiol-containing matrix-metalloproteinase-susceptible peptide cross-linker. Swelling studies showed that PEG hydrogels with similar initial stiffnesses degraded more rapidly as the PEG-AC content increased. The replacement of subcutaneously implanted PEG hydrogels was also found to be proportional to their PEG-AC content. In addition, it would in many instances be desirable that these materials have the ability to stimulate their neovascularization. These hydrogels contained covalently bound heparin, and it was shown that a formulation of the hydrogel that allowed tissue replacement to occur over 1 month could trap and release growth factors and increase neovascularization by 50% over that time.

Nikolaus Thierfelder

Department of Cardiac Surgery

Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Development and Evaluation of 3D-Printed Cardiovascular Phantoms for Interventional Planning and Training

Combining 3D-Printing and Electrospinning to Manufacture Biomimetic Heart Valve Leaflets

Nikolaus Thierfelder

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Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Development and Evaluation of 3D-Printed Cardiovascular Phantoms for Interventional Planning and Training

Combining 3D-Printing and Electrospinning to Manufacture Biomimetic Heart Valve Leaflets

Department of Cardiac Surgery