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Removing stent grafts and implications for putting them in
“Who will do my aortic surgery when my time comes” was a common refrain among my mentors, only half jokingly. Now, the question has gained a sharpness. I think the tide will turn and the kids will do fine, but we all have to do a bit of reclamation, or open surgery will become the habit of strange eccentric artisans. I recommend calling up the retired surgeon and inviting them in for conferences and cases. Reprint masterwork atlases like Wiley’s. Connect with likeminded. Before it’s too late.
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Thank you Dr. Park for this nice presentation. The message is clear and I found the paradigm about pacemakers and the results of the EVAR-1 trial very pertinent and successful. However, as you mention in your presentation, the majority of the stent-grafts that you have already explanted are more or less stent-grafts of the previous generations. Do you not believe that the next generation of endografts (similarly to the next generation of pacemakers) have a much higher safety profile?
Finally, I would like to invite you to upload any presentations or videos regarding technical tips for the surgical explantation of endografts after failed EVAR. That would be a great help for the daily practice of several vascular surgeons. Unfortunately, we are missing such kind of presentations in most congresses.