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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 99, 889-895, Copyright © 1990 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Bypass of superior vena cava. Fifteen years' experience with spiral vein graft for obstruction of superior vena cava caused by benign disease

DB Doty, JR Doty and KW Jones
Department of Surgery, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Nine patients had operations for obstruction of the superior vena cava with superior vena caval syndrome caused by benign disease. Three patients had fibrosing mediastinitis, four had fibrosing mediastinitis with caseous necrosis, one had thrombosis of the superior vena cava around a pacemaker electrode, and one had spontaneous thrombosis of the superior vena cava. Patients ranged in age from 25 to 68 years. All bypass operations were performed with a composite spiral vein graft constructed from the patient's own saphenous vein, split longitudinally and wrapped around a stent in spiral fashion. The edges of the vein were sutured together to form a large conduit ranging in diameter from 9.5 to 15.0 mm. Six grafts were from the left innominate vein and three grafts were from the internal jugular vein. The grafts were placed into the right atrial appendage in all except one case, in which the graft was to the distal superior vena cava. Follow-up extends from 1 to 15 years. One patient required reoperation at 4 days for thrombosis at the innominate vein-graft anastomosis. Resection of the anastomosis and reconstruction of the graft rendered the patient symptom free. Two grafts closed during the first year after operation. One patient had advancing fibrosing mediastinitis, and a second bypass graft from the external jugular veins remain patent. Another patient had recurrence of spontaneous venous thrombosis. Thus seven of nine grafts remain patent for up to nearly 15 years and all but one patient is free of superior vena caval syndrome. These data show that bypass of the obstructed superior vena cava with a spiral vein graft relieves superior vena caval syndrome and demonstrate long-term patency of the graft.

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