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Designing Functional Fabrics for Today’s Heart Valves and Beyond
2/4/2013
Heart valve disease affects nearly 5 million Americans, a figure that is expected to double in the next 25 years. The most advanced of these cases require heart valve surgery. Prosthetic heart valves are designed to...
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Biomedical Textiles Advance Development of Orthopedic Implants
12/2/2010
This whitepaper discusses the changing demographics of orthopedic patients, the versatility of biomedical fabrics and the advances in implantable biomaterial textile technologies in the development of ...
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The Role of Material Selection in Biomedical Textile Device Design
8/17/2010
Biomedical textile structures are increasingly prevalent as critical components in a broad range of medical devices. Device designers are challenged in exploring material selection in component design, optimizing the...
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The Future of Woven Biomedical Textiles in Next-Generation Devices
6/3/2010
One of the most interesting trends in medical device development is the rapid growth of woven biomedical textiles for use in key device components. As the pace of innovation in the device industry accelerates, engineers...
