• Antibiotics seem to reduce surgical site infections in people undergoing aortic or aortoiliac surgery. • Other interventions assessed appear to make little or no difference in reducing the incidence ...

[21] The Hemobahn/Viabahn graft (W.L. Gore & Associates, Flagstaff, AZ) is a self-expanding nitinol stent internally covered by an ultrathin PTFE graft. As a result of a special nitinol stent ...

LifeSpan vascular grafts, which are expanded polytetrafluoroethylene grafts; and vascular grafts used to bypass or replace diseased arteries. In addition, the company offers radiopaque tape ...

ePTFE and PET Layers The inner layer of the FUSION graft is comprised of extruded, expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE). The outer layer is a knit polyester textile, polyethylene terephthalate ...

In November, Merit Medical unveiled positive six-month findings from the single-arm Arteriovenous Graft cohort of ... tissue buildup within these devices' polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) layer.

On the left side of a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE ... the left common iliac artery and clamped at its origin. The bypass graft was then placed in a recurrent way in the retroperitoneal space ...

The TREO® Abdominal Stent Graft System (Terumo Aortic ... The tightly woven polyester has been shown to be superior to polytetrafluoroethylene, and the interlocking design within the gates mitigate ...