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Total intercostal artery reimplantation for descending thoracic aortic replacement
A Usui1, H Hosokawa, M Kawamura
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Owari Prefectural Hospital, Aichi, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
Reimplantation of all intercostal arteries was performed with a T-shaped graft for spinal cord protection in a 64-year-old man who required long-segment replacement of the descending thoracic aorta. The T-shaped graft maintained blood flow to the intercostal arteries, and no neurologic deficits developed.