Erschienen in:
15.02.2020 | Short Communication
Contralateral SIEV as a vein graft to augment venous drainage of DIEP flaps: a single-surgeon experience in 206 DIEP flaps
verfasst von:
Shameem A. Haque, Shadi Ghali
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Plastic Surgery
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Ausgabe 5/2020
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Excerpt
Venous congestion can result in fat necrosis and flap failure in breast reconstruction with deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flaps. It is caused by the variable venous anatomy across the midline and between the superficial and deep system. In such situations, adding the superficial inferior epigastric vein (SIEV) as a secondary drainage can reduce the congestion of the flap [
1]. Algorithms for venous supercharging the DIEP and deciding when to have been described [
2,
3]. …