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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-7-16
pubmed:abstractText
Preliminary in vitro and in vivo studies have shown that endothelialization is improved by a detoxifying postfixation treatment of glutaraldehyde (GA) fixed bovine pericardial patches and grafts. To test whether this is also true for GA tanned human vein (HUV) grafts, patches of commercially available HUV grafts (MHUV), postfixation treated HUV grafts (PTHUV) and GA fixed HUV granfts (GAHUV) were endothelialized in vitro. Eight pairs of MHUV and PTHUV grafts were implanted as femoropopliteal grafts in eight sheep. Endothelial cell adherence was significantly better on PTHUV (11910 +/- 4413 cells/cm2) than on MHUV (6545 +/- 2835 cells/mm2; p = 0.0007) and on GAHUV (3563 +/- 1638; p = 0.0001) one day after cell seeding. After eight days of culture significantly more cells spread on PTHUV material than on MHUV (p = 0.0002), but none of the cultures on GAHUV remained viable. Four PTHUV grafts occluded in the femoropopliteal position, mostly because of kinking, so that only in four pairs of grafts could the thrombus-free surface be compared by planimetry. Again PTHUV material was covered more by endothelial cells than was MHUV material. On PTHUV endothelial cells spread directly on the graft material while on MHUV these cells spread on a layer of fibrin and macrophages. Postfixation treatment of GA-fixed biological graft material by amino-acid solutions improves the biocompatibility of the material and enhances in vitro as well as spontaneous in vivo endothelialization.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0391-3988
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
15
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
289-94
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Improved endothelialization of postfixation treated biological vascular grafts.
pubmed:affiliation
II. Chirurgische Universitätsklinik, University of Vienna, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't