CorLink™ sutureless aortic anastomotic device: Results of an animal study

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 127-132

  Bar El, Yaron ^a,c   Tio, Fermin O ^b   Shofti, Rona ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Biomed Res Found of S Texas Inc   (United States)

^c RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Anastomotic device; Aorta; Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG); Coronary disease; Surgery

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; AORTA INJURY; AORTIC ANASTOMOTIC DEVICE; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SHEEP; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SUTURING METHOD; THROMBUS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN INJURY; WOUND HEALING; ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTIMA; PATHOLOGY; SUTURE; THROMBOSIS; VEIN;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; AORTA; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; SHEEP; SUTURES; THROMBOSIS; TUNICA INTIMA; VEINS;

EID: 0142155699     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4804(03)00191-4     Document Type: Article

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