Images of endovascular devices
Some images are courtesy of Dr S Whittaker.
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Diagrams showing the principles of endovascular aneurysm
repair.
Guide wires are inserted into the aorta from the arteries in the groins. These act as railroads for the device delivery system. In this example a bifurcated infra-renal device is being deployed. |
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Once the first component has been inserted, a catheter is placed using guidewire skills into the new graft so that the other limb can be deployed. |
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Photograph of one of the grafts used for emergency AAA repair (REVAR) |
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Company literature for the ZENITH endovascular system
manufactured by COOK.
This system is the one used by Mr Braithwaite in the vast majority of cases. |
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The Zenith custom made system with supra-renal stents |
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The 'rapier-like' delivery systems that need to be inserted into a patient's groin for deployment. |
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Pictures showing how the graft is deployed from the delivery system. In patients, this procedure occurs within the aortic aneurysm and xrays are used to observe deployment. |
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Illustration of cannulation of the contra-lateral limb of the graft. |
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Deployment of the conta-lateral limb. In reality this limb would be inside the iliac artery |
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Final appearance of graft |
