REVIEW

Biomaterials are an important area of biomedical technologies

Shtilman MI
About authors

Biomaterials Center for Education and Research,
Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Mikhail Shtilman
Miusskaya pl., d. 9; Mosscow, Russia, 125047; ur.xednay@mnamliths

Received: 2016-10-21 Accepted: 2016-10-24 Published online: 2017-01-05
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Fig. 1. Examples of structural heart valve endoprostheses: (A) disc endoprosthesis (Specialnoye konstruktorskoe buro medicinskoy tematiki, Russia); (B) bi-valved endoprosthesis (MedInzh, Russia); (C) three-valved endoprosthesis CorBit (Bakulev Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery, Russia)
Fig. 2. Examples of vascular stents: (A) self-expanding wire stent Alex (Komed, Russia); (B) MULTI-LINK VISION Coronary Stent made with laser processing of a tube of an alloy of cobalt and chromium (Abbott Vascular, USA)
Fig. 3. Woven crimped bifurcation vessel endoprosthesis made of PET — fluorlone (PGTO Sever, Russia)
Fig. 4. Parts of the hip endoprosthesis by Endo Plus (UK)
Fig. 5. Parts of the Consensus knee prosthesis by Hayes Medical (USA)
The size of the global market of biomaterials and biomaterial-based products