Once the idea emerged, it became unstoppable.
Zhou Can continually refined and scrutinized this brand-new surgical plan.
By resolving the blood supply issue of the branch vessels, treating this section of the aorta became manageable. Placing a specially long vascular stent could resolve the extremely long Aortic Dissection.
Because a new pathway was created through bypass, the connection between the branch vessels and the aorta was blocked by the stent, no longer affecting the outcome.
This approach has many benefits.
The surgical wound is much smaller than that of vascular replacement.
Moreover, without needing to stop the heart, the risk of losing blood supply during aortic vessel replacement, leading to paraplegia, is avoided.
The sole difficulty might be the bypass.
It requires anastomosis at the blood entry points of multiple branch vessels.
