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Juan Alcibar1, Natividad Peña, Ramón Inguanzo
1Department of Hemodynamics, Hospital de Cruces, 48903 Baracaldo, Vizcaya, Spain. jalcibar@hcru.osakidetza.net
Texas Heart Institute Journal
|January 4, 2008
Abstract:
We present the case of a 62-year-old woman who presented with recoarctation and then experienced rupture of the aorta and severe clinical deterioration after a stent was deployed. She was treated immediately by intrastent deployment of a stent-graft, which resolved the extremely serious situation.
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