Insufficient Peripheral Perfusion and Cardiac Strain After AV Access Creation
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany AV accesses may cause insufficient perfusion of the extremity distal to the AV anastomosis as well as…
Histopathology of AV Vascular Accesses
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany 19.1 Introduction Stenosis, thrombosis, and aneurysmatic dilatation are the most frequent postoperative complications in vascular access surgery….
Short Introduction to Fluid Dynamics: Relevant Aspects for Hemodynamics
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany The mechanics of solid bodies is fundamentally different from the mechanics of liquids and gases. The latter…
Redo Surgery with Prosthetic Grafts
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany Thrombosis, aneurysms, stenoses, and infections are possible causes for redo surgery. In the previous chapters we presented…
Puncture Techniques
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany In this chapter we discuss puncture sites, puncture techniques, how to remove cannulas, and the hemodynamic results…
Arterial Reconstructions of AV Accesses
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany With only 0.3 % of all AV access cases, arterial reconstructions related to AV accesses are rare…
Venous Congestion After the Creation of AV Accesses
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany Stenoses and/or occlusions of the venous runoff do not automatically cause thrombosis of the AV access. If…
Our Methods
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany For the hemodynamic investigations we used two different methods: experimental flow investigations in a pulsatile flow system…
Leakage of ePTFE Grafts (Perigraft Seroma)
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany 10.1 Pathophysiology The following experience is exclusively based on ePTFE prostheses. Their surface is uneven, fibrillary, and…
