Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, just performed the first implant of a CardioGraft allograft cardiac patch product with MatrACELL decellularization technology, a methodology that safely removes donor cells from cardiovascualr tissues while retaining the native biomechanical strength of the tissue.
This has the potential to reduce the number of heart surgeries for children born with complex congenital heart defects!
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Source: Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, 09-09-09