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4D flow MRI after aortic replacement with frozen elephant trunk using thoraflex hybrid graft
Andre Y Son1, Kelly Jarvis2, Michael Markl2
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|February 15, 2021
Abstract:
Four-dimensional (4D) flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has not been used to describe flow through a Thoraflex Hybrid graft. We present the first 4D flow MRI depiction of Thoraflex Hybrid graft after use as a frozen elephant trunk to repair a DeBakey Type I aortic dissection.

