Reliable and cost-effective system for surgical stent graft insertion.
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.
Nomura
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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kure National Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan. fnomura@kure-nh.go.jp
Mukai
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Fumimoto
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Y
Shimazutsu
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Ihara
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K
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