title: Reliable and cost-effective system for surgical stent graft insertion.
abstract: For intraoperative stented graft implantation, we use a half-inch translucent soft polyvinyl tube as a sheath and an obturator from a two-stage venous cannula as a pushing rod. Ten centimeters of any kind of graft can be used for the stent graft itself. The stent we used was a self-expandable Gianturco double Z stent and was sutured inside the graft.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kure National Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan. fnomura@kure-nh.go.jp
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mukai
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fumimoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimazutsu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ihara
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery*; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents