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Effect of healing on compliance of porous dacron grafts

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Annals of Vascular Surgery

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The effects of tissue ingrowth on the compliance of porous Dacron grafts were studied in 8 mm external-velour warp-knit Dacron grafts implanted in the canine descending thoracic aorta. The compliance of these grafts was measured before implantation and after implant periods of two weeks and one, two, four, and six months. Compliance, which initially was 0.043 ± 0.008% mm Hg, decreased less than 10% after implantation (no statistical difference at p < 0.05). No anastomotic neointimal hyperplasia was observed. Although the total thickness of the graft wall increased two- to three-fold after implantation, the benign healing process observed in this study had very little influence on graft compliance followed to six months.

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  1. Lester R. Sauvage MD (Director)

    Present address: From the Bob Hope International Heart Research Institute, Providence Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, 528 Eighteenth Avenue, Seattle, 98122, Seattle, Washington

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  1. From the Bob Hope International Heart Research Institute, Providence Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, 528 Eighteenth Avenue, Seattle, 98122, Seattle, Washington

    Yoshiyuki Usui MD, Steven G. Goff MD, Hong-De Wu MD, Stephen B. Robel MS & Mark Walker

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington

    Yoshiyuki Usui MD, Steven G. Goff MD, Lester R. Sauvage MD (Director), Hong-De Wu MD, Stephen B. Robel MS & Mark Walker

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Usui, Y., Goff, S.G., Sauvage, L.R. et al. Effect of healing on compliance of porous dacron grafts. Annals of Vascular Surgery 2, 120–126 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03187561

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