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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...
