Acute Traumatic Rupture of the Thoracic Aorta Treated with Endoluminal Stent Grafts

Abstract

Five cases of successful endograft repair of thoracic aortic rupture have been demonstrated. This should encourage future studies to determine whether endovascular repair of thoracic aortic ruptures is a safe and feasible alternative to conventional open repair.

Placement of endovascular stent-grafts for emergency repair of acute traumatic aortic rupture: a single-centre experience

“…Recent reports have shown that emergency repair of thoracic aortic disease with endovascular stent-grafts is a safe, effective and less invasive treatment option with technical success rates ranging from 90 to 100% and encouraging short-and mid-term results (Table 1) [5,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24].…”

Combined left ventricle and descending aorta gunshot wound

“…Recently we stated endovascular treatment to be a safe and efficient therapeutic option in blunt thoracic aortic trauma [33]. Several other series also showed endovascular treatment to be an efficient therapeutic option with good short-and midterm results [2,11,[7][8][9][15][16][17][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]27,36,28,32,1]. We consider interventional radiology and stent graft placement as therapeutic option for penetrating aortic trauma.…”

Tratamiento endovascular del trauma de aorta descendente

“…El uso de estas técnicas en el manejo de lesiones traumáticas agudas de la aorta ha sido reportado en forma creciente, con resultados alentadores [17][18][19][20] . A nivel nacional reportamos nuestro primer caso en 2003 21 .…”