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Ann Thorac Surg 2008;86:786. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.06.070
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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Sina L. Moainie, MD, Bartley P. Griffith, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S Greene St, N4W94, Baltimore, MD 21201-1544

(Email: smoainie@mac.com; bgriffith@smail.umaryland.edu).

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The ever-elusive optimal treatment of traumatic aortic injury is addressed by Yamaguchi and colleagues [1] through their introduction of a novel curved aortic stent-graft. Traumatic aortic rupture poses a clinical paradox in that patients with the most severe degrees of aortic injury are also those that are the poorest operative candidates due to the highest incidence of intracranial and intra-abdominal trauma in these patients. The introduction of aortic stent-grafts in 1991 by Parodi . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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