A simple technique to facilitate antegrade thoracic endograft deployment using a hybrid elephant trunk procedure under hypothermic circulatory arrest

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 669-671

  Lin, Peter H ^a,d   Dardik, Alan ^b   Coselli, Joseph S ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic arch reconstruction; Circulatory arrest; Elephant trunk; Hybrid endovascular procedure; Hypothermia; Nitinol stent graft; Thoracic aneurysm

Indexed keywords

NITINOL; POLITEF; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; DEVICE; ELEPHANT TRUNK TECHNIQUE; ENDOGRAFT; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; STENT GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; WARMING;

ALLOYS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CIRCULATORY ARREST, DEEP HYPOTHERMIA INDUCED; HEAT; HUMANS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STENTS;

EID: 35348989185     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/1545-1550(2007)14[669:ASTTFA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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