Intraoperative evaluation of small-calibre arterial reconstructions

✍ Scribed by Yasuhiko Sugawara; Toshihiko Ikegami; Toshiyuki Namba; Hideo Kimura; Kazuto Inoue; Keiichi Kubota; Yasushi Harihara; Tetsuro Miyata; Osamu Sato; Tadatoshi Takayama; Masatoshi Makuuchi

• Book ID: 104324743
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 357 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-5629
• DOI: 10.1016/s0301-5629(97)80001-4

✦ Synopsis

A new hammerhead-shaped, small probe for intraoperative duplex ultrasound was devised to evaluate small-calibre arterial reconstructions. This probe was used in two patients; one with terminal liver cirrhosis who had a left hepatic lobe that had been transplanted from her mother, and a second patient with limb-threatening ischaemia who had undergone arterial reconstructions. The technique was diagnostically useful and contributed to successful clinical outcomes.