Anastomotic Rupture of Aortic Grafts

Abstract

Proximal suture line disruption is one of the severe complications of syn thetic vascular grafting for arteriosclerotic aortic disorders. The pathology of clinical and experimental cases revealed that a small bite of each stitch cut into the host aorta and became disrupted. Making each stitch as large as possible in the host aorta is the first procedural choice for aortic replacement surgery. Protecting the anastomotic line with a synthetic mesh cloth wrapping is prefer able.

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