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Transapical deployment of endovascular thoracic aortic stent graft for an ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm
Wilson Y Szeto1, William G Moser, Nimesh D Desai
1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. szetow@uphs.upenn.edu
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 28, 2010
Abstract:
We report a case of a patient with a history of previous coronary artery bypass grafting undergoing endovascular aortic repair of a large pseudoaneurysm in the ascending aorta. Due to the limitations of the current technology, the endograft was deployed through a left ventricular transapical approach by using a left mini-thoracotomy.
