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Transapical endovascular repair with a table-tailored endograft to treat ascending aortic dissection
Chien-Ming Luo1, Shoei-Shen Wang, Nai-Hsin Chi
1Cardiovascular Surgical Division, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|September 9, 2014
Abstract:
Current endografts, which were designed primarily for the descending aorta, have significant limitations when used in the ascending aorta. We report our initial experience using the transapical endovascular approach to treat an ascending aortic dissection with a table-tailored commercial stent graft.

