Bioengineered Tissue Is Used in a Vein Graft (IMAGE)

Duke University Medical Center

Bioengineered Tissue Is Used in a Vein Graft

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A bioengineered tissue is used in a vein graft at Duke University Hospital on Wednesday, June 5, 2013. A kidney dialysis patient was the first in US to receive a blood vessel grown in a laboratory.

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Shawn Rocco, Duke Medicine

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