Traumatic Rupture of the Aortic Arch Treated by Stent Grafting (original) (raw)

1999, European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

isthmus: an emergency? World J Surg 1995; 19: 119-125. patients with traumatic aortic arch ruptures who are 4 Vlahakes GJ, Warren RL. Traumatic rupture of the aorta. N Eng J Med 1995; 332: 89-390. medically unfit, where the alternative is major open 5 Dake MD, Miller DC, Semba CP, Mitchell RS, Walker PJ, surgery. However, long-term reports of stent-graft in-Liddel RP. Transluminal placement of endovascular stent-grafts sertion are not yet available, and potential deleterious for the treatment of descending thoracic aortic aneurysms. N Eng J Med 1994; 331: 1729-1734. effects include stent disruption, graft-stent separation 6 May J, White G, Yu W, Sachinwalla T, McGahan T, at their sutured join, embolisation or occlusion of Monaghan G. Endoluminal repair of atypical dissecting adjacent arteries, and graft material disintegration, the aneurysm of descending thoracic aorta and fusiform aneurysm of the abdominal aorta. J Vasc Surg 1995; 22: 167-172. latter particularly as the graft is very much thinner than 7 Mitchell RS, Dake MD, Sembra CP, Fogarty TJ, Zarins CK, that currently used for open arterial bypass surgery. Liddel RP, Miller DC. Endovascular stent-graft repair of thor-