Surgical Technique for the Implantation of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts and Subsequent In Vivo MonitoringMaxwell T. Koobatian 1, Carmon Koenigsknecht 2, Sindhu Row 3, Stelios Andreadis 3, Daniel Swartz 2
1Department of Physiology & Bio-Physics, State University of New York Buffalo School of Medicine, 2Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York Buffalo School of Medicine, 3Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, State University of New York Buffalo School of Engineering
A step-by-step protocol for the inter-positional placement of Tissue Engineered Vessels (TEVs) into the carotid artery of a sheep using end-to-end anastomosis and real-time digital assessment in vivo until animal sacrifice.
