The minimally-invasive procedure, called thoracoabdominal branch endoprosthesis, addresses aortic aneurysms, life-threatening ...

During your surgery, the diseased portion of your aorta will be replaced with a Dacron® graft. If you have an arch aneurysm, it is possible that you may also require bypass grafts to replace vessels ...

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is the first Central Pa. hospital to perform groundbreaking surgery for ...

The Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center became the first hospital in the Midstate to perform a minimally ...

Aortic rupture is an obligatory emergency ... had a right-femoral-artery-vein bypass graft performed on February 18, 1960, because of ischemic necrosis and infection of the toes of the left ...

The goal of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is to improve blood flow to your heart ... and they branch off from the body’s main artery, the aorta, which carries oxygenated blood throughout the ...

Off-pump CABG, which avoids aortic cannulation and cardiopulmonary ... ACC/AHA 2004 guideline update for coronary artery bypass graft surgery: Summary article. A report of the American College ...

In asymptomatic patients with mild to moderate aortic stenosis ... 5%-10% for AVR and 15%-25% for AVR with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. [20,21,22,23,24] The mortality is uniformly ...

Vascular grafts are used in coronary bypass surgery and aortic aneurysm correction, and involve either synthetic vascular prostheses or autologous blood vessel grafts. Despite a large amount of ...