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They use a common medical technique called anastomosis. Basically they just sew the two arteries/vessels together with suture and the blood and tissue seals it
by iancmceachern 5y ago
They use a common medical technique called anastomosis. Basically they just sew the two arteries/vessels together with suture and the blood and tissue seals it as any other cut or nick in the body. Sometimes they use "bioglue" but its not strictly needed, just a timesaver.
- Blikkentrekker 5y agoAnd the pig tissue then connects with the human tissue and eventually heals to form a connected vessel? or it never grows together but it is sealed with a blood cloth?
- iancmceachern 5y agoExactly, the former.
- Blikkentrekker 5y agoSo say I carve a wound onto my skin, and then put live skin with a sufficient tissue match onto it and connect the blood vessels so that the new live skin does not die; then the live skin graft and my own damaged skin will hen heal into each other and form a connected totality?
- desmosxxx 5y agoFor skin & a "sufficient tissue match", yes. See e.g. tissue scaffolds.