Revista de Medicina y Cirugía Vascular

Abstracto

Axillary infection of Dacron graft after aortic dissection surgery

Guillermo Reyes

Peripheral cannulation is necessary to achieve adequate perfusion in patients undergoing cardiac surgery for aortic dissection. Many surgeons use the axillary artery to perfuse the patient using a tubular graft sutured to the axillary artery. The purpose of this technique is to have greater control of the surgical field. We describe the case of a patient who developed a decubitus of the axillary Dacron graft six months after surgery.