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. 2021 Mar 23;10(3):713. doi: 10.3390/cells10030713

Table 2.

Small-diameter tissue-engineered vascular grafts (SD-TEVGs) evaluated in humans.

Author Graft Type Year Graft Number of Patients Recellularization Follow-Up Time Primary Patency
CABG
Silver [20] Allogeneic 1982 Glutaraldehyde-fixed human umbilical vein grafts 11 None 3 to 13 months 46%
Laub [21] Allogeneic 1992 Cryopreserved allograft saphenous vein 19 None 2 to 16 months 41%
Mitchell [22] Xenogeneic 1993 Dialdehyde starch-treated bovine internal mammary artery 18 None 3 to 23 months 16%
Reddy [23] Xenogeneic 2004 No-React bovine internal mammary artery 7 None 1 to 4.5 years 57%
Englberger [24] Xenogeneic 2008 No-React bovine internal mammary artery 17 None 3 to 11 months 23%
Laube [25] Autologous cells on synthetic 2000 Autologous endothelial cell-seeded ePTFE graft 14 Autologous endothelial cell 7.5 to 48 months 91%
Lamm [26] and Herrmann [27] Autologous cells on allograft 2001 and 2019 Deendothelialized/cryopreserved allograft veins seeded by autologous endothelial cells 12 Autologous endothelial cell 16 to 18 years 80% (6 months);
50% (9 months);
0% (32 months)
Bypass grafting below knee
Lindsey [29] Xenogeneic 2017 Crosslinked bovine carotid artery 80 None 5 years 52% to 75%
Williams [30] Autologous cells on synthetic 2017 Adipose-Derived Stromal Vascular Fraction Cell seeded ePTFE 5 Adipose-Derived Stromal Vascular Fraction Cell 1 year 60%
AV shunt for hemodialysis access
Kennealey [31] Xenogeneic 2011 Crosslinked bovine carotid artery 26 None 1 year 61%
Harlander-Locke [32] Xenogeneic 2014 Crosslinked bovine carotid artery 17 None 18 months 73%
Wystrychowski [33] Allogeneic 2014 Allogeneic cell sheet-based TEVG, dehydrated 3 None <11 months 9.5 patient-month of use
Lawson [34] Allogeneic 2016 Allogeneic human acellular vessels 60 None >1 year 28% at 12 months
L’Heureux [35] Autologous 2007 Autologous cell sheet-based TEVG 6 Autologous fibroblast and endothelial cells <13 months 24 patient-months of use
McAllister [36] Autologous 2009 Autologous cell sheet-based TEVG 10 Autologous fibroblast and endothelial cells >6 months 68 patient-months of use
Wystrychowski [37] Autologous 2011 Autologous cell sheet-based TEVG, cold-preserved 1 Autologous endothelial cells 8 weeks 8 patient-weeks of use
SD-TEVGs: Small-diameter tissue engineered vascular grafts; CABG: coronary-artery bypass grafting; AV shunt: arteriovenous shunt. There might be other similar studies not included here.