Novel artery stretching offers way to repair vessel

Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital are pioneering a surgical procedure in which a child’s blood vessels are stretched, providing new material to make repairs elsewhere in the body. The newly grown arteries can replace sections that are damaged or missing, resulting in fixes that may grow with the child and last a lifetime. Heung Bae Kim, HMS associate professor of surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, led the team.

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