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Engineered Vascularized Muscle Flap
Published on: January 11, 2016
Multiple vascular anastomoses with vein grafts for salvage of congestive flaps
Yuzaburo Namba1, Yoshio Takahashi, Seiko Ito
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama, Japan.
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery
|January 15, 2004
Abstract:
The authors present two cases in which the venous drainage of transferred flaps was compromised and the flaps were salvaged by vein grafts. Traditionally, once transferred free flaps had become congestive, surgeons would re-anastomose the thrombosed veins, and administer anticoagulants or carry out peripheral vessel dilation. These authors recommend not only re-anastomosis of veins, but also additional venous drainage, with or without vein grafts.
