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| INTRAOPERATIVE
GRAFT PATENCY VERIFICATION IN RENAL TRANSPLANTS: A CASE STUDY
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HW. Donias, HL. Karamanoukian, RL. Karamanoukian, E. Kabil,
G. Czibik, J. Bergsland and R. Stephan |
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of Surgery, State University of New York, Buffalo, Department
of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, Division
of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Center for Less Invasive
Cardiac Surgery and Robotic Heart Surgery at Kaleida Health,
Buffalo General Hospital, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
State University of New York, Buffalo, USA |
The success of an arterial reconstruction is dependent
on multiple factors, includin patient selection, quality of the
vessels, type of vascular conduit employed, and the surgical technique
adopted. Transit time flow measurement (TTFM) is a technique that
is now the standard of care for immediate graft patency verification
following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. This study demonstrates
that TTFM can be successfully employed to evaluate renal transplant
anastomoses: accurate intraoperative measurements provide a rapid
objective assessment of renal graft patency
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