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Venovenous Bypass for Major Hepatic and Caval Trauma
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Venovenous Bypass for Major Hepatic and Caval Trauma

Fritz Baumgartner, Charles Scudamore, Cynthia Nair, Otto Karusseit and Al Hemming
The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, Vol.39(4), pp.671-673
10/1995
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199510000-00009

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Abstract

Severe trauma to the liver and juxtahepatic cava require vascular isolation of the lesion. In addition to the techniques of vascular clamping and atriocaval shunting, venovenous bypass is a viable alternative to repair such injuries. We herein report its use in five consecutive patients. The technique obviates the hemodynamic sequelae of uncompensated caval occlusion and the technical dangers of atriocaval shunting.

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