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Surgery Header    • Endovascular Surgery    • Endovascular
surgery uses minimally invasive procedures to correct problems
in blood vessels from within the vessels themselves. For
example, endovascular surgery can be used to treat a thoracic
aneurysm without opening the chest.      This technique has many
benefits that open surgery does not, including a smaller scar,
less pain and a quicker recovery. This procedure is often used
in patients whose overall health makes open surgery too
dangerous. With the use of a catheter, a stent graft is inserted
into a small artery through a tiny incision in the groin. Using
x-ray, the stent graft is guided to the damaged area of the
aorta. The stent graft is then expanded, providing a reinforced
channel for the blood to flow and thereby reducing the pressure
in the damaged area of the artery, which prevents rupture.
Our surgeons and interventional cardiologists are highly
experienced in all the most advanced m