Graft Overview

Introduction

The Clinical Reporting Application (CRA) supports grafts, sequential grafts, and Y grafts.

Graft properties in the properties panel are site configurable. See your System Administrator for more information.

Synapse combines the vessel segment name for the starting anastomosis and ending anastomosis to create the graft name.

An example of a name for a single graft is:

pRCA to mRCA

An example of a sequential graft name is:

Seq Vein from RT pEIA to LT llA

An example of a Y graft name is:

Vein Y-graft to RT mSFA

If you change the graft type, Synapse does not rename the main graft but does rename the dependent graft names.

An example of the name of the main graft is:

pRCA to mRCA

An example of Y graft name is:

SVG Y-graft to dRCA

If you change the main graft type to Radial, Synapse does not change the main name:

pRCA to mRCA

However, Synapse renames the Y-graft to:

Radial Y-graft to dRCA

Synapse bases the graft type on the origination point of the graft. You can change the origination point in the vessel diagram.

Synapse provides the following graft options, based on the origination point.

Right Subclavian
- Right Internal Mammary Artery (RIMA)
Left Subclavian
- Left Internal Mammary Artery (LIMA)
Gastroepiploic
- Gastroepiploic Artery (GEA)
Abdominal
- Autologous Bypass Grafts (ABD)
Aorta
- Saphenous Vein (SVG)
- Radial
Coronary Vessels
- SVG
- Radial
Peripheral Vascular and Non-Invasive Vascular Vessels
- SVG
- Radial
- Synthetic

Synapse displays synthetic grafts in the color green.

Synapse displays the following graft types in the color red:

Synapse displays the following grafts in the color blue: