title: Treatment of extensive aortic aneurysms by a new multiple-stage approach.
abstract: A new multiple-stage approach to extensive aneurysmal disease of the aorta is presented. The method is designed to obviate the proximal graft-to-aorta anastomosis in second-stage and third-stage aortic replacement to simplify and facilitate these operative steps. Since 1981 a total of 17 such procedures were performed in seven patients with dissecting and nondissecting aneurysms without deaths or complications related to the method.
authors.affiliation: Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Borst
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Frank
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schaps
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001027:Aortography; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed