Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Professor Gerard Stansby, Dr Christoph Berwanger
Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.
Elastic properties of vessel walls are altered by vascular anastomoses. Such alterations may lead to neointimal hyperplasia, which is a common cause of reocclusion following vascular surgery. The severity of paraanastomotic hypercompliant zones and anastomotic compliance drop depend on suturing material and on elastic properties of the anastomotic vessel segments. This study compares paraanastomotic hypercompliance and anastomotic compliance drop when using a new vascular closure system (VCS) and a conventional, continuous suture line in the preparation of end-to-end anastomoses. Compliance of artery-artery, vein-artery, and polytetrafluoroethylene-artery anastomoses was measured in an artificial circulation system at mean pressures of 60, 90, and 120 mm Hg, comparing conventional suturing and the VCS. When using the VCS for vein-artery anastomoses, significantly less postanastomotic hypercompliance was achieved at mean pressures of 60 mm Hg (14.2 +/-3.8% above remote postanastomotic area), compared to suture (55.1 +/-14.8%, p<0.05). At 90 mm Hg, respective values were 11.0 +/-2.3% for VCS and 54.7 +/-10.1% for suture, p<0.01. At 120 mm Hg, in polytetrafluoroethylene-artery anastomoses, the anastomotic compliance drop was significantly less when using the continuous suture line (93.9 +/-1.1% below remote postanastomotic compliance), compared to VCS (97.2 +/-0.2%, p<0.05). Compared to conventional suturing, use of the VCS reduced postanastomotic hypercompliance in vein-artery anastomoses.
Author(s): Stansby G; Berwanger CS; Knez P; Nelson K; Reichert V; Schmitz-Rixen T
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Vascular Surgery
Year: 2001
Volume: 35
Issue: 2
Pages: 115-121
Print publication date: 01/03/2001
ISSN (print): 0042-2835
ISSN (electronic): 1938-9116
Publisher: Sage Publications
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11668379
