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Evaluation of a Novel Laser-assisted Coronary Anastomotic Connector - the Trinity Clip - in a Porcine Off-pump Bypass Model
Published on: November 24, 2014
[Laser in surgery of vascular anastomoses]
Handchirurgie, Mikrochirurgie, Plastische Chirurgie : Organ Der Deutschsprachigen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fur Handchirurgie : Organ Der Deutschsprachigen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fur Mikrochirurgie Der Peripheren Nerven Und Gefasse : Organ Der V
|November 1, 1992
Abstract:
The disadvantages of present-day microvascular suturing techniques include suture-induced foreign-body granulomas, stenoses and aneurysms. In comparison, argon laser-assisted anastomoses show a more favorable histomorphology and a low rate of stenoses and aneurysms. Laser-assisted anastomoses pass through the same familiar healing phases seen in common wound-healing.
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