PolyKARD
Hybrid polymers, new materials for future cardiac therapies.
Beschreibung
The pericardium, or heart sac, surrounds the heart and consists of an elastic yet mechanically extraordinarily stable material. Due to its unique properties, autologous or processed pericardium of animal origin has long been used in cardiac surgery as a reinforcing and sealing material, e.g. for the closure of septal defects or in the construction of commercially available biological heart valves. In long-term use, calcification and hardening of the material is observed. This explains, for example, the limited durability of biological heart valve prostheses.
For more information on the project, please visit: promatleben.de/de/projekte/projekte-alphabetisch/polykard/
The IPolyKARD project is a research and development project in the ProMatLeben - Polymers program. It is funded within the framework program "From Material to Innovation".
For more information on the ProMatLeben program, please visit the website: promatleben.de/de/
Period:
01.03.2019 - 28.02.2022FKZ:
13XP5087CProjectlead
Dr. Hanna Hartmann
Head of Biomedicine & Material Sciences
NMI Natural and Medical Sciences Institute
at the University of Tübingen
Markwiesenstraße 55, 72770 Reutlingen
Tel.: +49 7121 51530-0
Mail: info@nmi.de
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