Modification of the Elephant Trunk Procedure for Treatment of Acute Aortic Dissection
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Journal of Cardiac Surgery
- Vol. 10 (1) , 65-67
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8191.1995.tb00593.x
Abstract
The distal anastomosis constructed during repair of an aortic dissection is prone to bleeding, reentry, and neodissection. To protect the hemostasis, a modification of Borst's elephant trunk procedure has been devised. This "mini-trunk" protects the anastomosis with an internal buttress using the crease of an infolded graft and with a short flap of graft everted into the distal lumen preventing access of the blood stream to this newly constructed suture line.Keywords
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