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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(8):2290-2291; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl164
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© The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Brief Report

Bovine ureter graft for haemodialysis access surgery*

Bilgin Emrecan, Levent Yilik, Cengiz Özbek and Ali Gürbüz

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Izmir Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Bilgin Emrecan, 20. sok No: 26/5, 06490-Bahçelievler-Ankara, Turkey. Email: bilginemrecan@yahoo.com

Keywords: bovine ureter graft; haemodialysis; vascular access

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Bovine ureter SynerGraft (SG) (CryoLife, Inc.) has been recently introduced into haemodialysis access surgery. It is a non-glutaraldehyde fixed acellular collagen and elastin matrix conduit that may withstand arterial pressures. There has only been one published report in humans with this graft for vascular access, except for a canine model which Matsuura et al. reported [1]. In this study, we report the early and mid-term outcome of bovine ureter as a haemodialysis access graft in chronic haemodialysis.

Four female patients with . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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