In Chapter 1, dacron and expanded polytetrafluoroethylene, the two basic graft types that have dominated the field of synthetic vascular prostheses for the past decades, are discussed to ...

An 86-year-old woman underwent an aortic valve replacement with cardiopulmonary bypass through a right axillary artery Dacron conduit. At the end of the procedure, the Dacron conduit was amputated ...