Tissue-Engineered Vascular Graft of Small Diameter Based on Electrospun Polylactide Microfibers

Table 1

Mechanical characteristics of the grafts based on PLLA microfibers.

Medium	Wall thickness, μm	Tensile strength, МPа	Young’s modulus, МPа	Elongation, %
Native rat aorta	150
The initial PLLA graft	320
PLLA graft thermally treated in the fixed state	250
PLLA graft thermally treated in the free state	370