Graft detachment, a cause of incompetence in stent-mounted aortic valve allografts

The detachment of allograft tissue from supporting stent posts has been a common mode of failure of stent-mounted aortic allografts. In an effort to reduce the localized stress loading on the tissue at the top of the stent posts, two changes were introduced to the previous fabrication protocol follo...

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