The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 29, 182-183, Copyright © 1980 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
A technique for preclotting vascular grafts
MF Glynn and WG Williams
Porous vascular grafts can be safely and securely sealed prior to use by a
thirty-minute soak in cryoprecipitate followed by a ten-minute immersion in
topical thrombin. This technique does not use the patient's blood and works
in a patient fully anticoagulated with heparin. It has provided absolute
graft competence in a series of 12 patients with valve conduits and 6 with
patch enlargement of the ascending aorta.