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Dr John Harris (Sydney, Australia). On several of the examples you showed us, the stent grafts were taken 3 to 4 cm into the visceral vessels. Why have you placed them so far into those arteries?
Dr Luiz Lanziotti. Well, two patients actually had visceral aneurysms, and we deployed the bridging stent way down into these arteries. We actually do not have an established pattern for that. It really depends on the procedure and how much overlap we feel is needed for each artery.
PII: S0741-5214(08)01899-5
doi:10.1016/j.jvs.2008.11.013
© 2008 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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