Type B dissection involves a tear in the aorta beyond the arch, usually in the descending thoracic aorta. Dissections can be acute or chronic. 2.4 Insertion of aortic remodelling hybrid stent is ...

with pathologies of the descending thoracic aorta. [29] The 30-day mortality rate was 5% in the stent graft group compared with 27% in the open surgery group. Ehrlich and colleagues reported a ...

The device is a 1-piece polyester fabric tube which combines a conventional vascular graft attached to an endovascular stent graft that allows treatment of the ascending aorta at the same time as the ...

Stent grafts generally have been designed ... studies comparing open and endovascular treatment of descending thoracic-aortic disease." Most of the studies of thoracic-aortic disease treatment ...

Doha, 23 April 2012: Hamad General Hospital (HGH) - a member of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) - has successfully conducted the very first procedure performed in Qatar using balloon-expandable stents ...

4 The descending aorta is fixed to the chest wall ... The position is identified on angiography and the stent graft deployed across the injured aorta, excluding it from the circulation (Figure ...

GORE ® Ascending Stent Graft, an investigational device ... in treating lesions of the aortic arch and descending thoracic aorta. The new purpose-built GORE Ascending Stent Graft will be used ...

The patient was immediately transferred to a vascular surgery department, where a stent-graft (Tbranch, Cook Medical, Limerick, Ireland) was implanted to the descending aorta without further ...