Heart pericardium membrane
is the new decellularised biological scaffold designed to reconstruct and strengthen soft tissues.
 
The Heart membrane is equine pericardium
carefully selected at collection and subsequently subjected to an exclusive Bioteck process that enables the removal of all potentially immunogenic elements, preserving the biological and biomechanical characteristics in full. 
 
Heart is also subjected to lyophilisation
that enables it to be stored for 5 years at room temperature. Finally, it is sterilised with β rays, thereby avoiding the use of ethylene oxide or γ rays, which would affect integrity and resistance.
 
The manufacturing process used helps obtain an entirely biocompatible graft
with the function of inert biological “scaffold” able to best support the tissue healing process, without causing any type of reaction in the surrounding tissues. Heart patch consists of a multi-directional layered weave of type I collagen fibres that give it excellent mechanical resistance and good elasticity in all directions.
 
Once grafted, it acts as a matrix for fibroblast infiltration
and as a substrate for the deposit of new collagen, thereby gradually degrading and being replaced by patient connective tissue.