A REVIEW ON TEXTILE IMPLANTABLE AND EXTRA CORPOREAL DEVICES IN MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
Keywords:
Sutures, artificial eye lenses, coronary stents, artificial kidneys, artificial knees.Abstract
The industry is growing at a incredible rate owing to its strengthening coverage, services and increasing expenditure by public as well private sectors. This worldwide increase in the average age of the human has, in turn, lead to a rapidly increasing number of surgical procedures involving bio implantation. The total industry size is expected to touch USD160 billion by 2017 & USD280 billion by 2020. Bio-Mimi city is one of the requirement for any kind of replacement and repair of any organ and other tissues. Bio compatibility is one of the major requirement in implantation of medical materials inside the human body. Textile materials are used in this field hugely because of its versatility. Recently up gradation of technology, innovation and invention provides platform to utilize the textile products in medical field. This paper is discussing about the use of implantable and extra corporeal devices made of textile products.
