Percutaneous endovascular stent-graft placement for the treatment of acute rupture of an aneurysm of the thoracic aorta.
A 68-year-old male patient presented with massive hematemesis following the acute rupture of an aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta into the esophagus. In view of the important cardiac and pulmonary comorbidities, surgical treatment was excluded and successful percutaneous implantation of an endovascular stent-graft in the descending aorta was performed. In selected patients endovascular treatment may constitute an alternative to the surgical repair of ruptured aortic aneurysms.
Department of Cardiology, Hospital of Mirano, VE, Italy.
Nicola
N
Pellizzari
Bernhard
B
Reimers
Salvatore
S
Saccà
Giampaolo
G
Pasquetto
Carlo
C
Cernetti
Massimo
M
Napodano
Mauro
M
Calò
Paolo
P
Michielon
Pietro
P
Pascotto
D000368:Aged; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001027:Aortography; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods