ArticleIndian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2025
Enhancing aortic anastomotic integrity: ex vivo evaluation of reinforcement techniques using Teflon-felt sandwich with mattress sutures.
Article in Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Posterior Teflon-Felt-Reinforced Coronary Button Anastomosis in a Modified Bentall Procedure: Early Outcomes in a Single-Center Retrospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Purpose: The success of aortic surgery depends on the durability and hemostatic properties of anastomotic techniques to prevent complications such as bleeding, thromboembolic events, and anastomotic disruption. This study evaluated the tensile strength of different suturing techniques ex vivo to assess their suitability for aortic procedures. Methods: Aortic wall specimens were obtained from porcine ascending aortae and anastomosed to vascular grafts using a 5-0 polypropylene monofilament suture. Four different suturing techniques were evaluated: simple interrupted sutures (Group A, Results: The simple interrupted suture technique incorporating a TFS with horizontal mattress sutures (Group D) demonstrated significantly superior tensile strength compared with the other techniques ( Conclusion: The TFS technique demonstrated superior tensile resilience among the studied methods, suggesting its potential advantage in aortic surgery. These findings provide a strong theoretical foundation for optimizing anastomotic techniques and warrant further in vivo investigation to validate their clinical applicability in enhancing surgical outcomes. Graphical abstract: Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12055-025-02043-1.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.