Finite element predictions of sutured and coupled microarterial anastomoses
- Submitting institution
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University of Central Lancashire
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 26017
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.14326/abe.8.63
- Title of journal
- Advanced Biomedical Engineering
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 63
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- -
- ISSN
- 2187-5219
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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J - John Tyndall Institute
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper reports multi-disciplinary research involving the Schools of Engineering/Medicine and Dentistry at UCLan, and the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Royal Preston Hospital (Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust). It investigates sutured and coupled micro-arterial anastomoses under clinical conditions representative of the picture immediately following surgery (i.e., permitting a degree of anastomotic separation). It is one of the first to provide compelling quantitative evidence explaining why a sutured anastomosis is more likely to fail than a coupled one, elucidating clinical observations, and endorsing the current trend toward increasing use of arterial coupling in clinical practice.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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