including open surgery, intraluminal endovascular treatment, and a combined surgical-endovascular approach (hybrid operation) with right subclavian artery transposition and thoracic aortic stent ...

This is so it does not interfere with the blood pressure response during the actual stent procedure. On the morning of the stent procedure, make sure you take aspirin and other blood thinning ...

A stent is a small tube that helps keep the artery open. It can also keep small pieces of plaque from breaking off and causing problems. You may need to spend the night in the hospital. For 1 or 2 ...

The patient underwent surgery again on the same day ... using a covered Wall stent with an occluded proximal stent graft lumen. The right subclavian artery was then transposed to the right common ...