Flexible, biocompatible Photopolymers as Synthetic Vascular Replacement Materials

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the western hemisphere ans is caused by partial or total occlusion of a coronary artery. The treatment of this disease is typically an aorto-coronary bypass operation. It is evident that in the last decade, the number of aorto-coronary bypass operation.