title: Ten years of endovascular treatment of traumatic aortic transection--a single centre experience.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Aim of the study was to present the 10-year results after endovascular repair of acute traumatic rupture of the descending aorta in a single centre.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-eight consecutive patients (35 men and 13 women; mean age 39.8 +/- 18 years) with traumatic lesions of the descending aorta were treated between March 1999 and November 2008. All patients were treated within 24 hours of admission.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirty-one Gore TAG, 13 Medtronic Valiant, 6 Cook Zenith TX2 were used. The technical success rate was 100%, the conversion rate was 0%. Thirty-day mortality rate was 8.3%; overall procedure-related mortality was 2.1% due an acute stent graft compression syndrome. Infolding endografts were observed in 3 patients (6.25%). The left subclavian artery was covered in 35 cases (70%), in one patient revascularisation was necessary. No neurological deficit was reported. Mean follow-up was 51.9 months (4-116 months). No late complications occurred.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Endovascular treatment of acute traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta is a safe method, with a lower morbidity and mortality than open repair.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany. alexander.oberhuber@uniklinik-ulm.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oberhuber
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Erhard
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Orend
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sunder-Plassmann
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / 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; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015607:Stents; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D055815:Young Adult