Successful management of a combined ruptured Stanford type B aortic dissection and malperfusion syndrome with an endoluminal graft.

Abstract

Thoracic endografting has been recently approved in the USA for the treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms. The application of endoluminal graft therapy to treat acute type B dissection has been shown to be effective but is still not considered standard of care. We describe the use of an endoluminal graft to treat a patient with an acute type B dissection associated with malperfusion and thoracic aortic rupture.

• Authors: Jacques Kpodonu, Venkatesh G Ramaiah, Edward B Diethrich
• Journal: Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg) Vol. 7 Issue 2 Pg. 339-41 (Apr 2008) ISSN: 1569-9285 [Electronic] England
• PMID: 18227123 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Aortic Dissection (complications, pathology, physiopathology, surgery)
• Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic (complications, pathology, physiopathology, surgery)
• Aortic Diseases (etiology, pathology, physiopathology, surgery)
• Aortic Rupture (etiology, pathology, physiopathology, surgery)
• Aortography
• Blood Vessel Prosthesis
• Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation (instrumentation)
• Humans
• Magnetic Resonance Angiography
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Prosthesis Design
• Radiography, Interventional
• Regional Blood Flow
• Stents
• Syndrome
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed
• Treatment Outcome
• Ultrasonography, Interventional