Table 2.

Strength of the paclitaxel loaded biomodics® IPN before and after one year implantation, and the GORE^© ACUSEAL by uniaxial tensometry.

Material	Circum stress (kPa)
Biomodics® IPN with Paclitaxel before implantationa	4,062
Biomodics® IPN with Paclitaxel—after one year implantation in sheepb	278
GORE© ACUSEAL	>14,000

^a Mean value of 4 samples.

^b Only one sample of the graft material from sheep could be tested correctly. The rest were so fragile, that they busted at the clamp site during stretch and therefore had to be excluded.