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Five-Year Outcomes With Conformable GORE® TAG® Endoprosthesis Used in Traumatic Aortic Transections

Monday, July 12, 2021

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Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

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Mark A. Farber, M.D., Kambhampaty V. Krishnasastry, M.D., Nimesh Desai, M.D., Ph.D., Benjamin W. Starnes, M.D., Jon S. Matsumura, M.D., Beth C. Tohill, M.S.P.H., Ph.D., on behalf of the TAG 08-02 clinical trial investigators

In this article, Dr. Farber et al. describe the acceptable five year outcomes of using the Conformable GORE® TAG® thoracic endoprosthesis (CTAG) device (W.L. Gore and Associates, Flagstaff, AZ) for thoracic endovascular repair (TEVAR) of blunt aortic injuries in a prospective, single-arm study among 111 patients. 

 

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