Red Vascular Branch Endograft System: Aortic Aneurysm - Video

The Red Vascular Branch Endograft System allows percutaneous stent grafting of aortic aneurysms with branch artery involvement.

Both the aorta and its branches can be grafted, and both endograft sheaths withdrawn, from a single access site like the femoral artery.

Suitable aortic branches for endograft placement include the iliac, brachiocephalic, carotid, subclavian, renal, hepatic, and superior mesenteric arteries.

The system is nonmodular, meaning the main aortic graft and branch graft are delivered as a single unit and are covered by the same continuous fabric. This eliminates risk of endoleak (blood leakage into the aneurysm) caused by junctional separation of the aortic and branch grafts.

By contrast, modular systems like Endologix's Ventana require that separate branch grafts be placed through fenestrations (openings) in the aortic graft. These systems can encounter problems, such as endoleak or branch graft migration, that compromise blood flow to organs (e.g., the kidneys) perfused by the branch arteries. Patients then require repeat procedures to fix these problems.

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(Not yet approved for clinical use.)

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