A multilayered electrospun graft as vascular access for hemodialysis.

Despite medical achievements, the number of patients with end-stage kidney disease keeps steadily raising, thereby entailing a high number of surgical and interventional procedures to establish and maintain arteriovenous vascular access for hemodialysis. Due to vascular disease, aneurysms or infecti...

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Main Authors: D Radakovic, J Reboredo, M Helm, T Weigel, S Schürlein, E Kupczyk, R G Leyh, H Walles, J Hansmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5638257?pdf=render