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Thoracic Stent Grafts
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Thoracic stent grafts offer an alternative to open surgery for thoracic aortic disease.
Commentary
Commentary Feature: Commentary - Frank J. Criado, MD Emergency Stent-graft Repair for Thoracic Aortic Injury by Castelli et al. is an important paper that lends further credence to the notion that endovascular repair is rapidly becoming the new standard of care in the treatment of traumatic transection of the thoracic aorta. anything and everything that standard surgical repair has accomplished over the past several decades as serious operative morbidity and mortality rates have remained ...
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Stent-Graft Repair
Stent-Graft Repair Editor's Letter: Stent-Graft Repair - Frank J. Criado, Editor-in-Chief Diseases of the thoracic aorta are relatively frequent and often life-threatening. Beginning with homemade devices, and having gone through first-generation commercial endografts, we have at present second- or third-generation devices that constitute viable tools for non-surgical endovascular repair in many patients with thoracic aortic diseases. The following examples illustrate the state-of-the-art ...
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VASCULAR TOPICS
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