The axillary artery to axillary vein bovine graft for circulatory access: surgical considerations.
The bovine graft axillary artery to axillary vein fistula provides a simple method of circulatory access. This method is reserved for patients in whom Cimino arteriovenous fistulas or looped grafts have failed. The grafts are easy to cannulate, flow is excellent, and the patients adapt to it very promptly.
D000818:Animals; D001166:Arteriovenous Shunt, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D001366:Axillary Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D001367:Axillary Vein / Q000601:surgery*; D002417:Cattle; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D013552:Swine; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous / Q000379:methods*