Management of the Proximal Anastomosis in Open, Hybrid Repair of Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Fabio Ramponi, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 93, Issue 1, Pages 358-359 (January 2012) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.06.041 Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) The distal three stents of the Valiant endograft (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN) are crimped into the 60 mL syringe. (B) The Dacron graft (Vascutek Terumo, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK) is telescoped over the endograft compacted into the syringe. (C) The syringe is removed and the stent-graft opens inside the Dacron graft (Vascutek Terumo) with three stents overlapped. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2012 93, 358-359DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.06.041) Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions