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Use of the Venous Coupler in Breast Reconstruction by Means of a Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator: Reduction of Surgery Length and Venous Thromboses ?

NCT03340623 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2018-05-31

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Summary

This is a retrospective study performed on medical records, in order to compare the number of venous thromboses, the surgery duration, the complications rate and the duration of anastomosis in breast reconstructive surgeries by the DIEP (Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap) technique, with or without the use of a venous coupler.

Conditions

  • Mammary Reconstruction

Interventions

DEVICE

Venous coupler

A coupler can be used to perform a venous anastomosis. It is a double ring with pins on only one of its 2 faces. The technique consists in clamping the two veins, estimating the intima-to-intimal diameter of the vessels, choosing the coupler of the appropriate size, sliding the vein in the ring and evers the edges of the vessel to fix them on the pins, redo the same thing for the other vein and finally bring the two vessels together in order to clip them together.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Brugmann University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Claudia Miszewska, MD · CHU Brugmann

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-11-01
Primary Completion
2018-05-28
Completion
2018-05-28

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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