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Synergizing Antegrade Endoscopic with Bridging Vein Harvesting for Improvement of Great Saphenous Vein Graft Quality from the Lower Leg
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Saphenous vein patch plasty to correct saphenous graft and aortotomy mismatch
Uday Dandekar1, Maninder S Kalkat, Paul Ridley
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|November 24, 2005
Abstract:
Mismatch of aortotomy and saphenous vein graft size occasionally occurs and can compromise the contour of the anastomosis thereby jeopardising its patency. We describe an alternative technique of saphenous vein patch plasty to overcome this complication by giving a more desirable hooded contour to the anastomosis. This results in improved graft patency, hemostasis and clinical outcome.

