Figure 11
From: Dynamic behavior of suture-anastomosed arteries and implications to vascular surgery operations
Artery-graft end-to-end anastomosis analysis. (a) Anastomosis model (at-rest state); the artery and graft are clamped at the far ends and no pressure is transmitted at this stage since the artery is emptied from the blood, (b) unrestrained deformed state (without sutures); the blood volume is conserved, (c) deformed state of anastomotic region due to dynamic loading, (d) forces acting on end-element of artery segment, (e) forces acting on end-element of graft segment.