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Fig. 3 | General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases

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From: Rare complication: refractory hypertension and intermittent claudication caused by elephant trunk entrapped in a new entry after total arch replacement for type A aortic dissection

Fig. 3

A time course of aortic configurations on enhanced computed tomography images and schemas. A Total arch replacement (TAR): persistent false lumen and forced true lumen. B Ten months after TAR with elephant trunk (ET): aortic remodeling was achieved, and the false lumen had almost disappeared. C Three years after TAR with ET: new entry occurred in the site of the distal ET. D Six years after TAR with ET: the distal ET was entrapped in the isolated dissecting aortic aneurysm

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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases

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