Abstract
The aortic disease that has attracted most attention is Marfan syndrome. Without treatment there is a bleak outlook for young people and hence the interest in prophylactic surgery. Alternative to aortic replacement surgery, the concept of personalised external aortic root support (PEARS) with macroporous, knitted, vascular graft evolved recently. In this chapter we discuss our experience with PEARS.
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Pepper, J.R. et al. (2019). The Exostent Concept for the Marfan Syndrome. In: Stanger, O., Pepper, J., Svensson, L. (eds) Surgical Management of Aortic Pathology. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-4874-7_39
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