Early reparative process of implanted arterial prosthesis: A morphological and hematological study

Prosthetic vascular grafts: Wrong models, wrong questions and no healing

“…Given the high number of annual implants, it is surprising how poorly investigated these limitations have remained throughout the years. While the initial enthusiasm for the availability of polyester grafts prompted several major studies in the 1960s and 1970s [7][8][9][10], relatively little has been added to our understanding since then. Typical for subsequent prosthetic vascular graft research, intensive efforts went into ever new permutations of prostheses without a sound baseline knowledge of pathological events behind the healing impairment of grafts which have been clinically implanted for decades.…”