Regenerative and durable small-diameter graft as an arterial conduit

Significance Clinical practice for arterial bypass surgery continues to use autologous vascular tissue harvested from the patient as the gold standard. A functional graft has remained elusive due to postimplantation challenges, including thrombogenicity, mismatched mechanical properties, aneurysmal failure, calcification, and intimal hyperplasia. Many promising graft designs require extensive and complex preparation techniques that impede...