Concomitant antegrade stent grafting of the descending thoracic aorta during transverse hemiarch reconstruction for acute DeBakey I aortic dissection repair improves aortic remodeling.
Ibrahim S SultanTyler J WallenAndreas HabertheuerMary SikiGeorge J ArnaoutakisJoseph BavariaWilson Y SzetoRita MilewskiPrashanth VallabhajosyulaPublished in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2017)
Antegrade TEVAR during open repair for DeBakey I dissection improves DTA remodeling by increasing true lumen diameter without enlargement of the total aortic diameter and by promoting false lumen thrombosis.