Figure 4
From: Dynamic behavior of suture-anastomosed arteries and implications to vascular surgery operations
End-to-end anastomosis analysis between isocompliant blood vessels. (a) Anastomosis model (at-rest state); the artery is 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 of artery (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) interrupted stitching scheme, (f) continuous stitching scheme.