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Thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair after failed endovascular abdominal aneurysm repair without endograft removal
Sotiris C Stamou1, Nicholas T Kouchoukos
1Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. cvsisfun@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Open surgical repair after failed endovascular aneurysm repair usually involves complete aneurysm removal and replacement with a prosthetic surgical graft. We describe an alternative strategy of open surgical repair of a thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair after failed endovascular aneurysm repair that entails preserving the functioning portion of the endograft and sewing the thoracoabdominal graft on the existing abdominal endograft.
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