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A new carotid-femoral experimental model has been developed which has significant clinical relevance to human limb salvage bypass grafting in the areas of graft length, hemodynamics and tissue environment. More significantly, the graft healing pattern observed with this model is similar to what is seen in humans. Therefore, this experimental model provides a challenging and critical site for dynamic healing studies and comparisons of different types of vascular prostheses.
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Wu, HD., Arnell, R.E., Sauvage, L.R. et al. The evolution of a clinically relevant experimental model for the realistic evaluation of long-length (80-cm) arterial prostheses. Annals of Vascular Surgery 4, 58–64 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02042691
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