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Publisher: Peytchinski, Gospodin Iliev
ISSN: 1312 773X (Online)
Issue: 2013, vol. 19, book 1;
Subject Collection: Medicine
Page: 396-398
DOI: 10.5272/jimab.2013191.396
Published online: 04 April 2013
J of IMAB. 2013; 19(1):396-398;
SIGNIFICANCE OF VENOUS GRAFT DIAMETER AND LENGTH FOR PERIPHERAL BY-PASS PATENCY
Mihail V. Cheshmedzhiev
, Emil D. Jordanov, Miroslav D. Yordanov.
Department of Vascular Surgery, St. Marina University Hospital, Varna,
Medical University – Varna, Bulgaria.
ABSTRACT:
Objective: To analyze the one-year-patency of infrainguinal arterial reconstructions in relation to venous graft diameter and length.
Material and Methods: 56 patent and failed infrainguinal autovenous by-pass reconstructions were followed up for no less than a year. The diameter of the vein was measured at the site of distal anastomosis, and the length after the completion of reconstruction.
Results: Results are worse in venous grafts with diameter less than 3.5 mm and length over 40 cm, but the difference between failed and patent by-passes with diameter over 3.5 mm and bigger length is also significant. Shorter and with diameter over 3.5 mm by-passes have the higher percentage patency.
Conclusion: Shorter grafts with diameter above 3.5 mm do not guarantee longer patency if distal anastomosis is constructed above diseased run-off segment.
Key words: diameter, length, venous by-pass.
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Cheshmedzhiev MV, Jordanov ED, Yordanov MD. SIGNIFICANCE OF VENOUS GRAFT DIAMETER AND LENGTH FOR PERIPHERAL BY-PASS PATENCY. J of IMAB. 2013; 19(1):396-398. DOI: 10.5272/jimab.2013191.396.
Correspondence to: Dr Mihail V. Cheshmedzhiev, Department of Vascular Surgery, St. Marina University Hospital, Varna, Bulgaria.
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Accepted for publication: 21 December 2012
Published online: 04 April 2013