Shunt control of bleeding after homograft replacement of the ascending aorta Mary C Mancini, MD, Eleanor M Cush, MS The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 67, Issue 4, Pages 1162-1163 (April 1999) DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00125-3
Fig 1 Hemashield (Meadox Corp., Oakland, NJ) patch sewn to native aorta covering the homograft replacement of the ascending aorta. The 6-mm Gore-Tex (W.L. Gore & Assoc, Flagstaff, AZ) graft connects the Hemashield patch to the right atrium forming the left-to-right shunt. (A-V = aorto-venous). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 1999 67, 1162-1163DOI: (10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00125-3)