Advanced Tips and Tricks for the Microvascular Coupler Anastomosis

Sarah J. Lonie; Georgios Pafitanis; Timothy P. Crowley; Maniram Ragbir; Juan Enrique Berner

doi:10.1016/j.jham.2024.100174

Advanced Tips and Tricks for the Microvascular Coupler Anastomosis

Sarah J. Lonie, Georgios Pafitanis, Timothy P. Crowley, Maniram Ragbir, Juan Enrique Berner

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Abstract

Microvascular anastomotic couplers are a safe alternative to traditional vein suture techniques. They are versatile and widely used for flap vein anastomoses; however, the technique has limitations. Most problems which can arise, have reasonable solutions that we have learned using this device. We describe advanced tips to avoid pitfalls and aid successful venous anastomoses with couplers in challenging situations.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	100174
Journal	Journal of Hand and Microsurgery
Volume	17
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jham.2024.100174
State	Published - Mar 2025
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Anastomosis
Microsurgery
Venous coupler

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Surgery

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