Abstract:
:Medical devices are important diagnosis and therapy tools for several diseases which include a wide range of products. Technological advances in this area have been proposed to reduce adverse complication incidences. New technologies and manufacturing processes, as well as the development of new materials or medical devices with modified surface and the use of biodegradable polymeric devices such as a substrate for cell culture in the field of tissue engineering, have attracted considerable attention in recent years by the scientific community intended to produce medical devices with superior properties and morphology. This review article focused on implantable devices, addresses the major advances in the biomedical field related to the devices manufacture processes such as 3D printing and hot melting extrusion, and the use of polymer matrices composed of copolymers, blends, nanocomposites or grafted with antiproliferative drugs for manufacturing and/or coating the devices surface.
journal_name
Curr Med Chemjournal_title
Current medicinal chemistryauthors
Dutra GVS,Neto WS,Dutra JPS,Machado Fdoi
10.2174/0929867325666180914110119subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-01-01 00:00:00pages
1580-1599issue
10eissn
0929-8673issn
1875-533Xpii
CMC-EPUB-93068journal_volume
27pub_type
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