TECHNICAL NOTES  VASCULAR SECTION 

The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2005 December;46(6):537-8

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language: English

Graft insertion technique for distal anastomosis in cases of ascending aortic aneurysm

Higuchi K. ¹, Koseni K. ¹, Takamoto S. ²

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery Asahi General Hospital, Chiba, Japan, 2 Department of Cardiac Surgery University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

We describe a simple and reliable technique of making a secure graft for aorta anastomosis, involving sandwiching the friable aortic wall between the graft and a Teflon strip. This technique makes possible a secure anastomosis with the distal friable tissue and prevents bleeding from the junction.