Reduced Perioperative Bleeding With Use of Saphenous Vein Homograft as Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Shunt
SVH as BTT shunt is associated with significantly less perioperative bleeding compared with PTFE, with no differences in risk of thrombosis or need for percutaneous intervention.
Authors
- T. K. Susheel Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4572-7492)
- David Zurakowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3610-6942)
- Steven J. Staffa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7588-7596)
- I.M. Vlassis
- Daniel M. Pasternack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0319-1597)
- Maya Crawford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9733-8192)
- Catherine Bull
- Thomas Beaulieu
- Sujata Chakravarti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9817-9920)
- Michael J. Martinez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3792-4149)
- Leslie James
- Ralph Mosca
Institutions
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- Center for Pain and the Brain (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports
- Published
- 2025-05-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atssr.2025.04.022
- Primary Topic
- Renal and Vascular Pathologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00