Why Should Arteries from Expanded Criteria Donors Be Harvested?

Abstract

Couture et al. investigated the early and late outcomes of patients with vascular graft infection treated by complete excision of the infected graft followed by infrarenal aortic repair using a cryopreserved arterial allograft (CAA).1 According to previously published similar series, they showed that the main drawbacks of CAA were allograft related complications, including rupture, pseudo-aneurysm, tear or collateral bleeding, and thrombosis or stenosis, leading to high CAA related re-intervention rates.