Sentences with phrase «tracheal splints»

In a short period of time, 3D bioprinting has been applied in studies using bones, blood vessels, composite tissues, vascular grafts, tracheal splints, cartilaginous structures, heart tissue (e.g., two - valve heart), and vaginal organs (1).

They take many forms, from titanium plates that replace missing chunks of skull to dissolvable tracheal splints that hold open collapsed airways.

Hollister and Green used provisions for emergency clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to create and implant a tracheal splint for Garrett made from a biopolymer called polycaprolactone.