Fixing Heart Defects In Children Using SIS Extracellular Matrix

Vetrix SIS Extracellular Matrix material is used far and wide within the human medical field. Vetrix uses the same technology to regenerate tissue in the veterinary medical field. While this technology has the capability to regenerate heart valves, in the veterinary field, Vetrix is used from everything involving dermal injuries to internal soft tissue reconstruction.

Medical-biomaterial-company CorMatrix Cardiovascular, based in Georgia, had developed an extracellular matrix material, a collagen framework that cells could attach to and hold the organs together.  It has the structure, shape, and signaling properties to attract native cells.  “If you put this sub-mucosal tissue anywhere in the body, it functions like a fisherman’s net.  It captures cells flowing through the bloodstream right where you want them. It’s like having the framework of a house that can actually recruit all the bricks and wood need to create a perfect house,” Redmond Paul Burke, MD, Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery at Miami Children’s Hospital, was quoted as saying.  The cells that are captured morph into the tissue needed for the malfunctioning organ to work properly.

See the video of a young girl who’s life was changed when a new heart valve was fashioned using only extracellular matrix.