Catchy Title: Just Touch and Plug. Commentary on ‘A Clampless Aorto-Prosthetic End-to-side Anastomotic Device With Large-diameter Aortic Puncher’

In their study, Sasajima et  al. describe an interesting clampless aortoprosthetic end to side anastomotic device (AD) with a large diameter aortic puncher.1 Vascular ADs have been developed for decades, but their clinical use has been scarce. Widespread clinical applications of vascular AD require performances at least equal or superior to manual suture techniques in terms of long term patency. Consequently, for more than 100 years, manual anastomosis has been the gold standard. A variety of ADs have been developed, mainly for coronary bypass surgery, such as rings, staples, clips, stents, adhesives, or welding, but mo st of these have no clinical application.

Source: EJVES Extra - May 15, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Anne Lejay, Nabil Chakf é Tags: Invited Commentary Source Type: research