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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:1692
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Replacement of the iliac vein

Carlos Del Campo, FRCS (C)a

a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Jude Medical Center, 301 W Bastanchury, Suite 195, Fullerton, CA 92835, USA

e-mail: cdelcampo@pol.net

To the Editor

Handa and associates [1] replaced an avulsed iliac vein using a descending thoracic aortic homograft previously harvested from an 8-year-old child. The authors obtained this graft from their tissue bank and acknowledged they were fortunate to have a small size available. This graft was selected because of the inferior patency rates of prosthetic grafts in the venous system. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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