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An endovascular stent relieves celiac and mesenteric ischemia in acute aortic dissection
Pascal Leprince1, Philippe Cluzel, Nicolas Bonnet
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France. pascal.leprince@psl.ap-hop-paris.fr
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 30, 2004
Abstract:
We report the case of a 63-year-old patient with bowel ischemia related to an acute type B dissection. The patient was successfully treated with a covered stent graft inserted at the level of the descending thoracic aorta.
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