Emergency stent-grafting for patients over 85 years of age with thoracic aortic rupture.
Conventional open repairs of thoracic aortic ruptures carry a high mortality and morbidity in patients over 85 years of age. Less invasive procedures may therefore be required to treat such elderly patients. An 87-year-old woman and 92-year-old man who had undergone emergency endovascular stent-grafting for thoracic aortic ruptures survived to discharge, despite critical conditions on admission.
Morishita
Kiyofumi
K
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan. kmori@sapmed.ac.jp
Kurimoto
Yoshihiko
Y
Kawaharada
Nobuyoshi
N
Osawa
Hisayoshi
H
Maeda
Toshiyuki
T
Abe
Tomio
T
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents