Patent ID: 7413575

Claim:
A small diameter textile conduit fabricated via an electrospinning perfusion process and useful as a tangible workpiece for the manufacture of a prosthetic vascular graft construct, said textile conduit comprising: a non-perforated hollow tube which has been fabricated via an electrospinning perfusion process and which exists as an electrospun nanofibrous biocomposite material generated from a fluid admixture comprised of at least one biodurable synthetic substance and at least one extracellular matrix protein which has been subjected to an electric current, said electrospun hollow tube presenting a single nanofibrous material wall comprised of discrete fibers wherein said biodurable synthetic substance is present primarily as 10 −8 meter diameter fibers and said extracellular matrix protein is present primarily as 10 −9 meter diameter fibers, having two open ends and an internal lumen less than about 6 millimeters in diameter, and providing an internal wall surface biocompatible for the conveyance of blood through said internal lumen.