“…The performance of blood-contacting biomedical devices (see also Chapter 10.10, Biomedical Applications) such as catheters, blood vessel grafts, vascular stents, artificial heart valves, circulatory support devices, various extracorporeal tubings, hemodialysis, hemapheresis, and oxygenator membranes is significantly impaired by these adverse reactions (18,(25)(26)(27)(28). The performance of blood-contacting biomedical devices (see also Chapter 10.10, Biomedical Applications) such as catheters, blood vessel grafts, vascular stents, artificial heart valves, circulatory support devices, various extracorporeal tubings, hemodialysis, hemapheresis, and oxygenator membranes is significantly impaired by these adverse reactions (18,(25)(26)(27)(28).…”