title: Neoadjuvant aortic endografting.
abstract: The advent and success of endovascular repair of abdominal aneurysms led to the development of catheter-based techniques to treat thoracic aortic pathology. Such diseases, including thoracic aortic aneurysms, acute and chronic type B dissections, penetrating aortic ulcers, and traumatic aortic transection, challenge surgeons to perform complex open operative repairs in high-risk patients. The minimally invasive nature of thoracic endografting provides an attractive alternative therapy. We present two cases of covered stent grafts deployed in the thoracic aorta to perform resection of the aortic wall infiltrated by malignancy in order to avoid a major vascular intervention and a traditional vascular graft interposition. This may become a potential new utility for aortic endografts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada. grnagle@rcsi.ie
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Roche-Nagle
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Perrot
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Waddell
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Oreopoulos
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Rubin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001027:Aortography / Q000379:methods; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020360:Neoadjuvant Therapy; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome