Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 47, Issue 3 , Pages 608-615 , March 2008

Inhibition of experimental neointimal hyperplasia by recombinant human thrombomodulin coated ePTFE stent grafts

Presented at the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, Stowe, Vt, Sept 17, 2005.

  • Geoffrey Wong, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School and the UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, Mass
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  • Jian-ming Li, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School and the UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, Mass
    • ,
  • Gregory Hendricks, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School and the UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, Mass.
    • ,
  • Mohammad H. Eslami, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School and the UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, Mass
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  • Michael J. Rohrer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School and the UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, Mass
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  • Bruce S. Cutler, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School and the UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, Mass
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Bruce S. Cutler, MD, Division of Vascular Surgery, UMass Memorial Health Care, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655.

Received 4 June 2007 ,Accepted 11 November 2007.

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 Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(07)01778-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.11.025

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 47, Issue 3 , Pages 608-615 , March 2008

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