title: A short wholly inside-out reversed vascular graft facilitating difficult aortic anastomosis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Shih-Rong
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.forename: Edward D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Verrier
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D011474:Prosthesis Design / Q000379:methods; D019737:Transplants