Clinical Assessment and EligibilityProcedural Techniques and Guidanceaortic dissectiontype B aortic dissectionsevere chest painstentCT scanaorta
Who is eligible for a stent
Not all patients can get a stent. However the majority can. Professor Mussa explains who might be suitable and why others can not have a stent
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So, patients who are eligible or who get a stent tend to be patients who had aortic dissection in what we call descending aorta or type B aortic dissection. If they turn up to the hospital with severe chest pain and CT scan shows a type B aortic dissection that with what we characterize in the medical field as suitable anatomy for a stent. Not everybody has suitable anatomy for a stent. Then they would get a stent, which is a tube that is inserted under imaging, so you look at it on the screen in the camera and goes live inside the body and gets deployed inside the aorta in an attempt to heal this aorta over time. you
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