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It is a procedure where the surgeon makes an incision on the side of the patients neck, dissects out the carotid artery, makes an incision in the carotid artery, then pulls out the atherosclerotic plaque. After this, the surgeon sews a patch over the incision on the artery then closes the patient up. I got to help with the dissection as well as the graft. The attending let me suture one half of the graft on to the artery. When we unclamped the artery, it did not leak at all. Not too bad for my first go around!
This is a picture of the graft.
Ryan Jackson, MD, keeping everybody stroke-free.
ReplyDeleteman, neat--o! I understand what you mean about how interesting your work is. It must be most rewarding to be able to restore health to a person (and their family) who is ailing with a condition like that.
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