title: Homemade endovascular treatment of postoperative aortobronchial fistulas.
abstract: Successful treatments of aortobronchial fistulas were achieved in two cases using a homemade endovascular stent graft. In one, a 75-year-old man was operated on for a distal arch aneurysm 11 years previously. In the other, a 73-year-old woman was operated on for a ruptured type B aortic dissection 2 months previously. In both cases, the chief complaint was repeated hemoptysis, and the communication between the aorta and the airway tract was at the distal anastomotic site in the descending aorta. To minimize risks associated with reoperation, endovascular stent grafting was selected electively. Postoperative courses were uneventful and there were no recurrences of hemoptysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Yosuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Toshihiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shibata
authors.forename: Mitsuharu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hosono
authors.forename: Yukimasa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Shigefumi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suehiro
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery; D001015:Aortic Arch Syndromes / Q000601:surgery; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000601:surgery; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation; D001983:Bronchial Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D015607:Stents