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Novel Endovascular Repair of the Small Thoracic Aorta: Customizing Off‐the‐Shelf Endoluminal Grafts
Author(s) -
Preventza Ourania,
Wheatley Grayson H.,
Williams James,
Ramaiah Venkatesh G.,
RodriguezLopez Julio A.,
Diethrich Edward B.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00444.x
Subject(s) - medicine , off the shelf , aortic repair , thoracic aorta , surgery , aorta , radiology , engineering , manufacturing engineering
Treatment of the small thoracic aorta is not currently amenable to standard endovascular repair. New customized endovascular approaches are necessary for these patients who are not candidates, for open repair. We describe a novel endovascular repair of a thoracic aortic pseudoaneurysm associated with a prior coarctation repair.