In most cases, a patient with a blocked or damaged blood vessel in their heart will rely on a procedure to treat their condition called an autograft. During the surgery, a large vein is harvested from elsewhere in the body, such as from the leg, and used to repair or bypass the faulty vessel in the chest.

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It’s a highly invasive procedure, which many older patients can be too frail to undergo. While synthetic vascular grafts are also available, they are prone to infection and blood clotting in smaller diameter vessels – but this is where tissue engineering can start to come in handy.

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University of Sheffield research fellow Dr Sam Pashneh-Tala is pioneering the study of cardiovascular disease through scaffold based stereolithography (SLA) tissue engineering techniques powered by the Formlabs Form […]

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