The aorta, one of the "great arteries," carries ... If complications occur, minimally-invasive surgical procedures, such as inserting a stent, which patches the tear and supports blood flow ...

During the endovascular fenestrated and branched stent-grafts procedures, the surgeon places the stent in the aorta in the location of the aneurysm and connects these side branch stents into the blood ...

A fabric tube, called a stent graft, is then placed inside the aorta to seal off the aneurysm and create a new path for blood flow. After the stent graft is expanded, the delivery tube is removed, ...

Each end of the graft is held within a cap; inadvertent release during positioning within the aorta is prevented by a safety catch. The full length of the graft material is stent supported to ...

Debra Reals still remembers lying on a gurney with her father and sister at her side as trauma surgeons explained the ...

Both the proximal and distal segments of the endograft have scalloped flares, which are to facilitate endograft conformity in a tortuous thoracic aorta ... enlargement with stent fracture in ...