Credit: Hackensack University Medical Center
Heart and Vascular Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center is one of the first hospitals the United States to use Cook Medical’s Zenith Dissection Endovascular System to treat an emergent complicated Type B aortic dissection. This system provides physicians a less invasive alternative to open surgery for such an emergency. From left to right: Massimo M. Napolitano, M.D., FACS, vice chair, Department of Surgery, director, Vascular Services, Hackensack University Medical Center and Michael Wilderman, M.D., FACS, chief of Endovascular Surgery, Hackensack University Medical Center.