POSTS TAGGED AS blood vessels

A Patch of Living Cells to Treat Blood Vessel Blockages

3D Patch for Resected Femoral Artery
Vascular grafts and stents work with arteries, but when a blockage plugs up smaller blood [MORE]

Guiding Therapeutic Angiogenesis

Blood Vessel Model
This piece reports that researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Stanford University have used 3-D printing to [MORE]

Doppler Ultrasound to Detect Blood Clots

Sonavex Ultrasound
Doppler ultrasound generates frequencies that are amplified when a transducer moves over an artery or vein. A blockage changes [MORE]

3-D Printing for Complex Blood Vessel Formations

3D Printing Blood Vessels
“Nanoengineers have 3-D printed a lifelike, functional blood vessel network that could pave the way toward artificial [MORE]

Personalized Medical Devices—3-D Printed Biodegradable Stents

3D Printing Customized Stents
Today’s arterial stents are made from either metal or plastic. They come in different sizes, and the [MORE]

“Off-the-Shelf” Implantable Artificial Blood Vessels

New Born Lamb
Eight years ago, Doris Taylor at the University of Minnesota grew a beating rat heart from a decellularized [MORE]

“Atrial 4-D Flow CMR”

Cardiac Imaging
Besides the unsettling fear from an irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation increases a patient’s stroke risk. To gage that risk, [MORE]

Test Results for Lab-Grown Blood Vessels

Bioengineered Blood Vessels Duke
Bioengineers at Duke and Yale universities have created blood vessels in tissue culture by allowing human vascular [MORE]

Regenerative Gel Stimulates New Blood Vessel Formation

Regenerative Gel
It would be welcome news, indeed, if means existed to regenerate blood vessels in diabetics, thereby reducing the threat [MORE]

3-D Printing of Thick Vascularized Tissue

Tissue Engineering
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have used 3-D bioprinting to create “thick vascularized tissue constructs composed of human stem [MORE]

Rapid Fabrication of Living Blood Vessels

Want to grow a blood vessel in a week or two? Here is a highly detailed piece with videos which [MORE]

Making Blood Vessels Younger

Mervin C. Yoder, MD, Indiana University SOM
Aging wears on blood vessels, as over time, endothelial cells lining blood vessels lose [MORE]

Growing Blood Vessels in a Week

Preparation of Blood Vessels in the Lab
This report from Sahlgrenska University in Gothenburg, Sweden is astonishing, but short on important [MORE]

Kidney Structures from 3-D Printing

3D Printed Capillaries
Printing organs does not appear to be on the near term horizon, but persistently 3-D printing is moving [MORE]