title: Arcuate-legged nonpenetrating vascular closure staples (VCS): early experience.
abstract: Vascular closure staples (VCS) provide a novel technique for fashioning vascular anastomoses, allowing a single operator to perform suture-less anastomoses. They may be used primarily or in an adjuvant role. When VCS are compared to a running suture, advantages include the avoidance of intimal damage, platelet aggregation and intimal hyperplasia at the anastomotic suture line, and a shorter time taken to complete the anastomosis. We report our early experience using VCS in an array of vascular anastomoses and conclude that VCS are a useful addition to the vascular surgeon's armamentarium. They help to decrease the time taken to construct an anastomosis, and are particularly useful in an adjuvant setting, complementing conventionally placed sutures.
authors: Department of Vascular Surgery, St. James's Hospital, P.O. Box 580, James's Street Dublin 8, Ireland. sherifsultan@esatclear.ie
authors: S A
authors: SA
authors: Sultan
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Madhavan
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Evoy
authors: E M
authors: EM
authors: Purcell
authors: M P
authors: MP
authors: Colgan
authors: D J
authors: DJ
authors: Moore
authors: G D
authors: GD
authors: Shanik
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013537:Sutures; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*