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Int J Cardiovasc Imaging
August 2016
Department of Cardiology, Kosuyolu Heart, Education & Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Recently, longitudinal stent deformation (LSD) has been reported increasingly. Even though the reported cases included almost all stent designs, most cases were seen in the Elementâ„¢ stent design (Boston Scientific, Natick, MA, USA). It is considered that stent design, lesion and procedural characteristics play a role in the etiology of LSD.
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August 2000
Department of Radiology, 2nd Floor, Guy's Tower, Guy's Hospital, St. Thomas Street, London SE1 9RT, UK.
The availability of large diameter stent-grafts is now allowing the endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms. Most aneurysms are closely related to the distal arch and it is thus necessary to pass the delivery systems into the arch to effectively cover the proximal neck. Even with extra-stiff guidewires in position, it may still be difficult to achieve this, as a result of tortuosity at the iliac arteries and the aorta.
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