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Chapters
- 00:00Title
- 00:16Introduction
- 01:40Basic Principles of the Surgical Procedure
- 03:18Presurgical Preparations
- 03:53Harvest of a Vascularized Tibial Bone Segement (Bone VCA)
- 06:24Orthotopic Tibial Bone VCA Reconstruction
- 07:23Central Venous Catheter Placement
- 07:54Postoperative Treatment and Follow Up
- 08:46Results
- 09:51Conclusion
Currently any kind of vascularized composite allotransplantation depends on long-term-immunosuppression, difficult to support for non-life-critical indications. We present a new porcine tibial VCA model that can be used to study bone VCA and demonstrate the use of surgical angiogenesis to maintain bone viability without the need of long-term immune-modulation.
