Gabriel Victor Simões Dutra, Weslany Silvério Neto, João Paulo Simões Dutra and Fabricio Machado* Pages 1580 - 1599 ( 20 )
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.
Medical devices, manufacturing engineering, surface modification, polymers, tissue engineering, manufacturing engineering.
Instituto de Quimica, Universidade de Brasilia, Campus Universitario Darcy Ribeiro, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Instituto de Quimica, Universidade de Brasilia, Campus Universitario Darcy Ribeiro, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Departamento de Medicina, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Goias, Avenida Universitaria 1440 Setor Universitario, 74605-070 Goiania, GO, Instituto de Quimica, Universidade de Brasilia, Campus Universitario Darcy Ribeiro, 70910-900 Brasília, DF