Table 2.
Eligibility Criteria.
| INCLUSION CRITERIA | EXCLUSION CRITERIA |
| • Patients > 18 years | • Emergency surgery |
| • Informed Consent | • Patients with coagulopathy or uremia |
| • Indication for a peripheral vascular reconstruction due to peripheral vascular disease | • Participating in another trial with interfering endpoints |
| • Suture hole bleeding of peripheral arterial bypass anastomosis using PTFE graft | • Patients requiring continuous postoperative anticoagulation |
| • Reoperation within one month at the same location | |
| • Pregnant and breastfeeding women | |
| • Known or suspected allergies or hypersensitivity to any of the used devices | |
| • Severe comorbidity (ASA >4) | |
| • Life expectancy less than 12 months | |
| • Current immunsuppressive therapy | |
| • Chemotherapy within last 4 weeks | |
| • Severe psychiatric or neurologic diseases | |
| • Lack of compliance | |
| • Drug- and/alcohol-abuse | |
| • Inability to understand and to follow the instructions given by the investigator |