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Published on: October 14, 2013
Successful free flap transfer and salvage in sickle cell trait
A J Platt1, A Robertson, A G Batchelor
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
British Journal of Plastic Surgery
|November 25, 2000
Abstract:
The presence of sickle cell haemoglobin is generally regarded as a contraindication to free tissue transfer. We present the case of a 42-year-old male with sickle cell trait who had free transfer of a latissimus dorsi flap to cover a gunshot wound to his thigh. His initial haemoglobin S was 36%. Early flap failure from venous thrombosis was successfully salvaged by re-anastomosis to alternative vessels.
