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From: Coronary artery bypass grafting hemodynamics and anastomosis design: a biomedical engineering review

Figure 21

Prosthetic bifurcating vascular grafting device. (a): (1) Flow from the proximal anastomosis (2,3) suture-lines of the end-to-end anastomoses of the distal section (4) the host artery. (b) The bifurcated flows impinge upon each other at the central lumen of the distal anastomosis and avoid arterial bed impingement to reduce the possibility of IH formation. Also, flow separation at the toe is eliminated and the opposing self-correcting flows rapidly return to normal hemodynamic behavior. (c) Intraoperative photograph of the graft implanted into a porcine aorta (adopted from [163, 164] with permission).

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