WOVEN VASCULAR MICROSURGICAL PROSTHESES
IN OUR EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE
Veselý J. 1 , Bravo C. 1 , Dražan L. 1 , Samohýl J. 1 , Tichý F. 2 , Lorencová J. 2 , Šťastná, M. 3 , Rezai A. 1
1 Clinic of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, St. Ann’s Faculty Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic 2 Veterinary and Pharmaceutical University, Brno, Czech Republic 3 Knitwear Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic |
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Summary:
The authors have been concerned for six years with the development of woven microsurgical prostheses in ex-
periments on laboratory rats, beagle dogs and domestic white pigs. In rats, in 224 experiments employing 38
types of prostheses with an inner diameter of 2 mm, a reliable prosthesis was selected, described as No. 36, with
a 100% patency after insertion of a 1 cm long portion into a defect in the abdominal aorta in 40 experiments. The
follow-up of this type of prosthesis lasted 12 months.
In large animals this type of prosthesis was implanted into a defect of the radial artery and cephalic vein in dogs
and into the femoral artery and the artery of a vascular pedicle of groin and lateral thigh flap. These experiments
on large animals are not yet complete and will be the subject of a separate paper.
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