A short wholly inside-out reversed vascular graft facilitating difficult aortic anastomosis.
Aortic arch operations are sometimes very difficult because of their deep position, exposure limitation, and extensive involvement of the degenerative disease. We present a new technique derived from a modified elephant trunk technique to simplify some laborious situations.
Hsieh
Shih-Rong
SR
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taichung, Taiwan, China. season@vghtc.gov.tw
Verrier
Edward D
ED
D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D011474:Prosthesis Design / Q000379:methods; D019737:Transplants