Here Mr Alexander Rolls, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, discusses the method by which a vascular graft is designed and tailored to the individual's anatomy for an aneurysm repair.
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Is the graft design undertaken for open surgery like it is for endovascular? We very much do. Again, the surgeon needs to be very, very aware or as much as possible be able to picture in his or her mind you know, what the actual, particularly that visceral segment of the aorta where the kidneys and the gut vessels come off, where the vessels are going to lie, whether those vessels are best incorporated in a patch when the polyester graft is stitched in, or whether they're best incorporated for example using actually a branched graft that has little side pipes coming off it, whether that approach is more suitable. So yes, the analysis of the anatomy is very stringent in that territory as well, but relies less upon sort of clock face and millimetre measurements of vessels in order to design a stenograph.
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