The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 40, 172-174, Copyright © 1985 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Patency rate of bifurcated aortic grafts: comparative analysis of woven versus knitted prostheses in the same patient
F Robicsek, HK Daugherty, JC Cook, JG Selle, PJ Hess, J Burtoft and R Lawhorn
To investigate the difference in patency rate between woven and knitted
aortofemoral or aortoiliac prosthetic grafts, a special vascular prosthesis
was manufactured with one limb of the graft knitted and the other, woven.
The prosthesis was implanted in 143 consecutive patients with occlusive
aortoiliac arteriosclerotic disease or aneurysms. Detailed statistical
analysis failed to reveal any difference in the patency rate between the
woven and knitted limbs of the grafts during an observation period ranging
from one month to two years.