title: Endovascular repair of Stanford type B aortic dissection: early and mid-term outcomes of 121 cases.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyse the early and mid-term outcomes of endovascular repair of Stanford type B aortic dissection (B-AD) and to compare the outcomes between acute type B aortic dissection (AAD) and chronic type B aortic dissection (CAD).
  
  
  METHODS
  The cohort included 121 consecutive patients undergoing endovascular repair for AAD (group A, n=72) and CAD (group B, n=49) between January 2001 and December 2006. Follow-up with clinical examinations and computed tomography (CT) was performed post-intervention at 1, 6 and 12 months, and then yearly thereafter.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In groups A and B, respectively, the procedure success rates were 88.9% and 77.6%; the rates of postoperative endoleak were 11.1% and 22.4%; the 30-day mortality rates were 1.4% and 8.2%; and the 30-day stroke rates were 4.2% and 2.0%. No postoperative spinal cord ischaemia (SCI) was observed. The mean follow-up periods for groups A and B were 14.4+/-11.0 months and 22.1+/-20.8 months, respectively. Late mortality was 1.5% in group A and 4.8% in group B. In group A, the rates of complete false lumen (FL) thrombosis at 1 month, 1 year and 2 years postoperatively were 32.3%, 51.4% and 53.8%, respectively, and in group B, 26.2%, 44.8%, and 50.0%, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Endovascular repair is feasible for both AAD and CAD, with favourable short- and mid-term outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, PR China.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guangqi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xiaoxi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Songqi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zilun
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Shenming
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D001027:Aortography / Q000379:methods; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000401:mortality; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D020760:Spinal Cord Ischemia / Q000209:etiology; D015607:Stents; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome