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Five-Year Outcomes With Conformable GORE® TAG® Endoprosthesis Used in Traumatic Aortic Transections

Monday, July 12, 2021

Submitted by

Jessica Luc

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(21)01013-4/fulltext

Author(s)

Mark A. Farber, M.D., Kambhampaty V. Krishnasastry, M.D., Nimesh Desai, M.D., Ph.D., Benjamin W. Starnes, M.D., Jon S. Matsumura, M.D., Beth C. Tohill, M.S.P.H., Ph.D., on behalf of the TAG 08-02 clinical trial investigators

In this article, Dr. Farber et al. describe the acceptable five year outcomes of using the Conformable GORE® TAG® thoracic endoprosthesis (CTAG) device (W.L. Gore and Associates, Flagstaff, AZ) for thoracic endovascular repair (TEVAR) of blunt aortic injuries in a prospective, single-arm study among 111 patients.