[Use of formaldehyde-preserved, silicone-coated inner surface and form-fixed bovine blood vessels as vascular...

A total of 114 vascular transplants of formaldehyde-preserved, form-fixed bovine vessels with silicone-coated inner surface were implanted to 113 dialysis patients and to one patient with asthma bronchiale. They were used as arteriovenous bridging grafts for punctures or parts of them and as arterial bridging grafts for repair. Included were A. glutealis in 43 instances as well as A. thoracica interna, V. glutealis and V. thoracica interna in 18 instances, and A. sacralis in 53 cases. Low early-thrombosis rates were recorded from all transplants. Transplants of A. glutealis and A. thoracica interna quite often exhibited spontaneous aneurysmatic enlargement in response to repeated puncturing. Fewer complications were recordable from transplants of A. glutealis, V. thoracica interna and A. sacralis.