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Covered Cheatham-Platinum Stents for Aortic Coarctation

Early and Intermediate-Term Results

Aphrodite Tzifa, MRCPCH^_*, Peter Ewert, MD, Grazyna Brzezinska-Rajszys, MD, Bjoern Peters, MD, Maria Zubrzycka, MD, Eric Rosenthal, MRCP^_*, Felix Berger, MD and Shakeel A. Qureshi, FRCP^_*,_*

^_* Department of Congenital Heart Disease, Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Department of Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Institute, Berlin, Germany
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Warsaw, Poland

View larger version (164K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Covered stent implantation for long-segment aortic coarctation with aneurysm.

View larger version (97K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 (A) Fractured stent before covered stent implantation. (B) Same patient as in panel A after covered stent implantation.

View larger version (81K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 (A) Atretic aortic coarctation (CoA). (B) Same patient as in panel A after covered stent implantation.

View larger version (28K): [in a new window]   Figure 4 Breakdown of previous procedures with complications. CoA = aortic coarctation; PDA = patent ductus arteriosus.

View larger version (59K): [in a new window]   Figure 5 (A) Stent weld before and after the gold soldering process. (B) End weld encapsulated in gold. (C) Bare welds of the covered Cheatham-platinum (CP) stent. (D) Expanded and unexpanded covered CP stent.