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ReviewNature reviews. Cardiology2021

Next-generation tissue-engineered heart valves with repair, remodelling and regeneration capacity.

Emanuela S Fioretta, Sarah E Motta, Valentina Lintas, Sandra Loerakker, Kevin K Parker, Frank P T Baaijens, Volkmar Falk, Simon P Hoerstrup, Maximilian Y Emmert

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Review in Nature reviews. Cardiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 107 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
107citing papers in PubMed
19.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

107 citing papers in PubMed, 249 citations in OpenAlex.

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47 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Emanuela S Fioretta *Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sarah E Motta *Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Valentina LintasWyss Translational Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sandra LoerakkerDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Kevin K ParkerDisease Biophysics Group, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Frank P T BaaijensDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0975-5376
Volkmar FalkDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Simon P HoerstrupInstitute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Maximilian Y EmmertInstitute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. maximilian.emmert@irem.uzh.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8837-1716
University of Zurich · CHEindhoven University of Technology · NLHarvard University · USETH Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Valvular heart disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Surgical valve repair or replacement has been the standard of care for patients with valvular heart disease for many decades, but transcatheter heart valve therapy has revolutionized the field in the past 15 years. However, despite the tremendous technical evolution of transcatheter heart valves, to date, the clinically available heart valve prostheses for surgical and transcatheter replacement have considerable limitations. The design of next-generation tissue-engineered heart valves (TEHVs) with repair, remodelling and regenerative capacity can address these limitations, and TEHVs could become a promising therapeutic alternative for patients with valvular disease. In this Review, we present a comprehensive overview of current clinically adopted heart valve replacement options, with a focus on transcatheter prostheses. We discuss the various concepts of heart valve tissue engineering underlying the design of next-generation TEHVs, focusing on off-the-shelf technologies. We also summarize the latest preclinical and clinical evidence for the use of these TEHVs and describe the current scientific, regulatory and clinical challenges associated with the safe and broad clinical translation of this technology.

Indexed as

Heart Valve DiseasesHeart Valve Prosthesis ImplantationHeart ValvesHumansRegenerationTissue Engineering

Identifiers

PMID32908285
OpenAlexW3084196559

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