Concise Review : Patency of Small-Diameter Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts: A Meta-Analysis of Preclinical Trials

© 2019 The Authors. STEM CELLS TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of AlphaMed Press..

Several patient groups undergoing small-diameter (<6 mm) vessel bypass surgery have limited autologous vessels for use as grafts. Tissue-engineered vascular grafts (TEVG) have been suggested as an alternative, but the ideal TEVG remains to be generated, and a systematic overview and meta-analysis of clinically relevant studies is lacking. We systematically searched PubMed and Embase databases for (pre)clinical trials and identified three clinical and 68 preclinical trials ([>rabbit]; 873 TEVGs) meeting the inclusion criteria. Preclinical trials represented low to medium risk of bias, and binary logistic regression revealed that patency was significantly affected by recellularization, TEVG length, TEVG diameter, surface modification, and preconditioning. In contrast, scaffold types were less important. The patency was 63.5%, 89%, and 100% for TEVGs with a median diameter of 3 mm, 4 mm, and 5 mm, respectively. In the group of recellularized TEVGs, patency was not improved by using smooth muscle cells in addition to endothelial cells nor affected by the endothelial origin, but seems to benefit from a long-term (46-240 hours) recellularization time. Finally, data showed that median TEVG length (5 cm) and median follow-up (56 days) used in preclinical settings are relatively inadequate for direct clinical translation. In conclusion, our data imply that future studies should consider a TEVG design that at least includes endothelial recellularization and bioreactor preconditioning, and we suggest that more standard guidelines for testing and reporting TEVGs in large animals should be considered to enable interstudy comparisons and favor a robust and reproducible outcome as well as clinical translation.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

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Stem cells translational medicine - 8(2019), 7 vom: 06. Juli, Seite 671-680

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Skovrind, Ida [VerfasserIn]
Harvald, Eva Bang [VerfasserIn]
Juul Belling, Helene [VerfasserIn]
Jørgensen, Christian Damsgaard [VerfasserIn]
Lindholt, Jes Sanddal [VerfasserIn]
Andersen, Ditte Caroline [VerfasserIn]

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Bypass
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
Meta-analysis
Patency
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Revascularization
Systematic Review
Tissue-engineered vascular grafts

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Date Completed 20.05.2020

Date Revised 20.05.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/sctm.18-0287

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NLM295429615