Exploring Lymphovenous Anastomosis for Alzheimer's Disease: Addressing Brain Lymphatic Dysfunction, Feasibility, and Outcome Metrics

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2026 May 14. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000013179. Online ahead of print.

Stav Brown¹, Felix J Klimitz^{1

2}, Jonathan Kipnis³, Helene Benveniste⁴, Geir Ringstad^{5

6}, Per Kristian Eide^{5

6}, Sayed Azizi⁷, Adam Mecca^{8

9}, Siba Haykal¹, Bohdan Pomahac¹

¹ Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
² Department of Hand, Replantation, and Microsurgery, Burns and Plastic Surgery, BG Trauma Center Berlin, Chair of Hand, Replantation, and Microsurgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
³ Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG) Center, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA; Department of Pathology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, USA.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁵ K.G. Jebsen Center for Brain Fluid Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
⁶ Department of Radiology, Oslo University Hospital-Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway.
⁷ Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁸ Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁹ Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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