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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2014
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Tanahashi, Otsu, JP;
Yuka Sakaguchi, Otsu, JP;
Masaki Fujita, Otsu, JP;
Koji Kadowaki, Otsu, JP;
Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Otsu, JP;
Satoshi Yamada, Otsu, JP;
Toray Industries, Inc., , JP;
Abstract
An artificial blood vessel is a tubular fabric including a fiber layer containing an ultrafine fiber(s) and an ultrafine fiber layer in the inside of the fiber layer, the ultrafine fiber layer being composed of an ultrafine fiber(s) having a fiber diameter(s) of not less than 10 nm and not more than 3 μm, wherein a quaternary ammonium group-containing polymer having alkyl groups each of a carbon number 10 or less is covalently bound to the ultrafine fiber(s); heparin is ionically bound to the quaternary ammonium group-containing polymer; and the residual heparin activity after washing with physiological saline at 37° C. for 30 minutes is 20 mIU/cm2 or more.