title: Slimgraft: a percutaneous endovascular graft system.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe an in vitro feasibility trial of a new percutaneous endograft delivery technique.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A water flow model of 9-mm (inner diameter) transparent plastic tubing was used to test the feasibility of sequentially delivering the components of an endograft through a 7-F sheath for assembly in situ. The tubular endovascular graft was fabricated from a 10-mm x 68-mm Wallstent and 50-microm-thick Dacron graft. The graft material was formed into a tube, attached with a suture to a guidewire, and delivered into the plastic tubing. The Wallstent was then delivered through the tubular graft and deployed, affixing the graft to the plastic tube wall. In 4 trials, only 1 attempt was not successful.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These concepts and techniques may have implications in the development of percutaneously deliverable endovascular grafts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kerr
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Marsan
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lyon
mesh_terms: D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D015607:Stents