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Endovascular Stent Grafting for Thoracic Aneurysms in Jehovah's Witnesses: Report of
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Surg Today. 2005;35(4):317-9
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Endovascular Stent Grafting for Thoracic Aneurysms in Jehovah's Witnesses: Report of Three Cases.
Hachiro Y, Kurimoto Y, Morishita K, Fukada J, Fujisawa Y, Kawaharada N, Abe T.
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, S 1, W 16, Chou-ku, Sapporo, 060-8543, Japan.
There are few published reports on endovascular stent grafting for thoracic aneurysms in Jehovah's Witnesses. Between 2001 and 2003, we performed endovascular stent grafting for a thoracic aneurysm in three patients of the Jehovah's Witness faith. Two patients had a thoracic aortic aneurysm and one had a chronic type-B dissection. The stent graft was constructed from a self-expanding Z-stent and thin-walled woven polyester fabric. None of the patients required perioperative blood transfusion, there was no postoperative endoleak, and all recovered uneventfully and were discharged from hospital. Thus, stent-graft repair of thoracic aneurysms in Jehovah's Witnesses is feasible and can be achieved without the need for blood transfusion.
PMID: 15815850 [PubMed - in process]
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