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Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
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Sutureless Vascular Anastomoses by Polydioxanone Connector

M. Kâmuran Erk, M.D.

Departments of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Ondokuzmayis University, Medical Faculty, Samsun, Turkey

Ismail Basyigit, M.D.

Pitie Salpetiér Hospital, Paris, France

Fersat Kolbakir, M.D.

Tahsin Keçeligil, M.D.

Mahmut Yilman, M.D.

Departments of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Ondokuzmayis University, Medical Faculty, Samsun, Turkey

Usually a single end-to-end anastomosis on a middle-size vessel cannot be performed in less than twenty minutes with either separate or continuous suture technique. For easy and quick anastomoses the authors studied 12 dogs with a sutureless concept. With this method proximal and distal ends of a vessel were joined by means of a polydioxanone tube connector. The sutureless procedure took approximately five minutes to complete. Six months after the operation the anastomoses were examined and more than 41% of the vessels were found patent. The authors' opinion is that, if polydioxanone tube is prepared more properly, the rate of patency will be higher than this.

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol. 29, No. 3, 209-212 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/153857449502900306
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