title: Endovascular treatment of a thoracic aortic pseudoaneurysm after previous open repair.
abstract: The use of endovascular stents to treat descending thoracic aortic pathologies is emerging as a less invasive therapy to treat high-risk patients. This case report describes the presentation of a patient with a pulsatile mass on her back. The patient's computed tomographic scan revealed the mass to be an extension of a large psuedoaneurysm from the site of a previous repair of her thoracic aorta for a dissecting aneurysm several years earlier. The psuedoaneurysm was successfully treated with an endovascular stent and the patient was discharged home on postoperative day 5.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. dbrinster@partners.org
authors.forename: Derek R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Brinster
authors.forename: Desirae M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: McKee
authors.forename: Dawn M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Olsen
authors.forename: Scott S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Berman
authors.forename: Julio A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Rodriguez-Lopez
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000150:complications; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D002404:Catheterization; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D012008:Recurrence; D015607:Stents; D013908:Thoracotomy