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and that suture line has to make a neat connection or anastomosis
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with the native vessel.
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Surgeons being able to sew into the material reliably is,
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obviously, an important part of the design.
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Dacron, a textile, has a nice property that way.
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The other material that's used often is a material
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you're familiar with called GORE-TEX.
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GORE-TEX is basically Teflon,
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its Teflon that is treated
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in a special so that it becomes porous.
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One of the properties of Teflon,
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you use it as cookware, for example,