title: [Two cases of stent graft repair for thoracic aortic dissection: usefulness of three-dimensional computed tomogram].
abstract: We carried out stent graft repair in two patients with Stanford type B thoracic aortic dissection. A 51-year-old male was admitted to our hospital because of thoracic aortic dissection. Chest CT revealed an aneurysm of the distal aortic arch. The entry was pointed out 1 cm distal from the take off of the left subclavian artery in three-dimensional CT (3 D-CT). He was treated with a Gianturco stent which was anchored into the 30 mm Hemashield graft under selective cerebral perfusion. Another case was a 72-year-old male with a descending aortic aneurysm. 3 D-CT showed that the entry existed 4 cm proximal to the celiac artery. We performed transluminal implantation of the spiral Z-stent covered with the woven Dacron graft. 3 D-CT was useful for the preoperative management and the surgical treatment of thoracic aortic dissection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Zentsuji Hospital, Zentsuji, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Horike
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fukata
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kanoh
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kurushima
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000592:standards; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000592:standards