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Results of urgent and emergency thoracic procedures treated by endoluminal repair.
INTRODUCTION: emergency surgery on the thoracic aorta is associated with a high mortality. Endovascular treatment for these patients may offer a realistic alternative to open surgery.
METHOD: between 1997 and 2002 data was collected prospectively on all patients who underwent urgent or emergency endoluminal repair for thoracic aortic pathology. All patients had ruptured or were at risk of rupture, and had been assessed as high risk for open surgery.
RESULTS: twenty-four patients required urgent/emergency stent grafts. The median age was 74 (range 17-90). Indications included: trauma (transection in 3 and traumatic dissection in 1), acute symptomatic type B dissection (4), symptomatic degenerative aneurysms (7), false aneurysms associated with infection (6), Takayasu's vasculitis causing rupture of the descending thoracic aorta (1), symptomatic aneurysm associated with chronic dissection (1) and a secondary aorto-oesophageal fistula (1). The 30-day survival was 83.3% (20/24) and the survival at 1 year was 70.8% (17/24). The median follow-up was 13.5 months (range 2-57). The complications included: transient paraplegia (1), non-disabling stroke (1), distal endoleak treated with an extension cuff (1) and a proximal endoleak (1) which required removal of the graft at open surgery.
CONCLUSION: endoluminal repair of thoracic aortic disease requiring urgent/emergency treatment has encouraging results with low morbidity and mortality rates compared with open surgery. Long-term follow-up is required to assess the durability of the grafts.
METHOD: between 1997 and 2002 data was collected prospectively on all patients who underwent urgent or emergency endoluminal repair for thoracic aortic pathology. All patients had ruptured or were at risk of rupture, and had been assessed as high risk for open surgery.
RESULTS: twenty-four patients required urgent/emergency stent grafts. The median age was 74 (range 17-90). Indications included: trauma (transection in 3 and traumatic dissection in 1), acute symptomatic type B dissection (4), symptomatic degenerative aneurysms (7), false aneurysms associated with infection (6), Takayasu's vasculitis causing rupture of the descending thoracic aorta (1), symptomatic aneurysm associated with chronic dissection (1) and a secondary aorto-oesophageal fistula (1). The 30-day survival was 83.3% (20/24) and the survival at 1 year was 70.8% (17/24). The median follow-up was 13.5 months (range 2-57). The complications included: transient paraplegia (1), non-disabling stroke (1), distal endoleak treated with an extension cuff (1) and a proximal endoleak (1) which required removal of the graft at open surgery.
CONCLUSION: endoluminal repair of thoracic aortic disease requiring urgent/emergency treatment has encouraging results with low morbidity and mortality rates compared with open surgery. Long-term follow-up is required to assess the durability of the grafts.
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