Emergent endovascular stent-graft placement to treat ruptured Stanford type B acute aortic dissection.
Uncomplicated Stanford type B acute aortic dissection, for which medical treatments are effective in most cases, is associated with a better prognosis than Stanford type A dissection. However, ruptured Stanford type B dissection still is associated with high mortality, because of the risks of open surgery and the complications of the disease. We report successful stent-graft placement in two patients with acute type B dissection with rupture, and discuss the advantages of stent-graft placement to treat ruptured acute type B dissection.
Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan. saorik@nirs.go.jp
Saori
S
Kawamura
Hiroshi
H
Nishimaki
Zong-Bo
ZB
Lin
Masato
M
Machii
Yoshinori
Y
Isobe
Kazushige
K
Hayakawa
Kazui
K
Soma
D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; 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; D008875:Middle Aged; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome