Increased warm ischemia time during vessel harvest decreases the primary patency of cryopreserved conduits in patients undergoing lower extremity bypass J. Michael Cullen, MD, J. Hunter Mehaffey, MD, MSc, Robert B. Hawkins, MD, MSc, Vikram Gupta, Rishi A. Roy, MD, William P. Robinson, MD, Margaret C. Tracci, MD, JD, Kenneth J. Cherry, MD, John A. Kern, MD, Gilbert R. Upchurch, MD Journal of Vascular Surgery Volume 69, Issue 1, Pages 164-173 (January 2019) DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2018.04.065 Copyright © 2018 Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier curves demonstrating percent primary patency of overall, inflow, and outflow procedures (A), and cryopreserved arterial versus vein bypass conduits (B). Journal of Vascular Surgery 2019 69, 164-173DOI: (10.1016/j.jvs.2018.04.065) Copyright © 2018 Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Boxplot graphs of warm ischemia times (WITs) among patent and not patent grafts at 100 days (A) and 300 days (B). Journal of Vascular Surgery 2019 69, 164-173DOI: (10.1016/j.jvs.2018.04.065) Copyright © 2018 Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Kaplan-Meier curve of percent amputation-free survival among limb salvage operations. Journal of Vascular Surgery 2019 69, 164-173DOI: (10.1016/j.jvs.2018.04.065) Copyright © 2018 Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions