Early experience with the first commercially available off-the-shelf multibranched endograft (t-Branch) in the treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 719-725

  Bosiers, Michel J ^a   Bisdas, Theodosios ^b   Donas, Konstantinos P ^a   Torsello, Giovanni ^a,b   Austermann, Martin ^a  

^a ST FRANZISKUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Branched endograft; Morbidity; Mortality; Multibranched stent graft; Paraplegia; Spinal cord ischemia; Stent graft; t Branch system; Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms; Type B dissection

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM ENDOVASCULAR GRAFT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIALYSIS; DISSECTION; ENDOLEAK; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MARKETING; MORTALITY; OCCLUSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PATENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; THORACOABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84890079713     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: 15451550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/13-4428R.1     Document Type: Article

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