Shaping the Next Generation of Cardiovascular Devices Through Biomedical Textile Engineering

The cardiovascular device market is growing, with research forecasting that the cardiac implant medical device market alone will exceed $27 billion by the year 2017, according to the May 2013 Renub Research study “Global Cardiac Implant Devices Market Forecast, Clinical Trials, M&A”. There is tremendous opportunity in this industry, but with it comes intensifying pressure on device OEMs to innovate on the traditional implant model. As a result, engineers are increasingly required to explore new and different solutions to achieve in vivo drug delivery, implant success, fewer revisions, and improved patient outcomes.