2. Skin Grafts and Flaps
Reconstructing complex wounds is accomplished by shifting or transferring tissues to the wound from a different part of the body. A “skin graft” is the transfer of a portion of the skin (without its blood supply) to a wound. A “flap” consists of o...
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3. Bone Grafts: MedlinePlus
A bone graft transplants bone tissue. Surgeons use bone grafts to repair and rebuild diseased bones in your hips, knees, spine, and sometimes other bones and joints. Grafts can also repair bone loss caused by some types of fractures or cancers. On.....
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4. Saphenous Vein Graft Aneurysms: eMedicine Cardiology
Coronary artery revascularization with saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) has become a surgical standard for treatment of coronary artery disease since Favaloro first described it in 1967. Riahi and associates described the rare complication of saphenou...
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5. Spiral Vein Graft for SVC Stenosis
A 44 year old female presented with a complaint of increasing swelling in her head and upper chest over the last year. She reported increasing shortness of breath and a drowning sensation when in the supine position. Her face becomes red and tight...
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6. Body's own veins are superior material for aortic grafts
DALLAS – Dec. 30, 2009 – A vascular surgical technique pioneered at UT Southwestern Medical Center and designed to replace infected aortic grafts with the body’s own veins has proved more durable and less prone to new infection than similar proced...
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7. arly Loss of Thrombomodulin Expression Impairs Vein Graft Thromboresistance: Implications for Vein Graft Failure -- Kim et al. 90 (2): 205 -- Circulat...
From the Divisions of Cardiology (A.Y.K., C.B., C.B.D., G.B.A., R.H.S., J.J.R.), Cardiac Surgery (P.L.W., E.A.P., J.G.S., R.S.S.), and Vascular Surgery (J.L.S.), The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md; Oklahoma Medical Research Founda...
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8. Saphenofemoral vein crossover bypass grafting in iliofemoral vein obstruction -- Haas 89 (4): 511 -- Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
Iliofemoral vein obstruction that causes venous hypertension in an extremity may produce symptoms that severely limit a patient's activities. A saphenofemoral venous crossover graft may relieve those symptoms. The procedure also is indicated for t...
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9. UC Davis Health System: Vascular Center: Vascular Laboratory: Vein Graft Surveillance
An arterial bypass graft using a person’s own vein for the graft is the most durable means to treat severe, peripheral, artery disease when the blockage is below the level of the groin. Vein bypass grafts offer...
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10. Veins
Blood vessels that carry blood away from an organ, as opposed to arteries which carry blood toward an organ. Examples of organs are the kidneys, the liver, the brain and the heart. Within the organ, oxygen and nutrients are extracted and carbon di...
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