title: [Endovascular treatment of descending aortic dissection (type B)].
abstract: Aortic dissection is one of the most serious aortic diseases by its potential for rupture, but also for other complications, such as cerebral or splanchnic ischemia, which may be fatal. If open surgery is the rule for lesions of the ascending aorta (type A), type B (not concerning the ascending aorta) is first a matter of medical treatment except when complications are present. In this case the placement of a stentgraft is a valuable alternative to open surgery. We report a patient presenting with a type B aortic dissection, characterized by rapid expansion and complicated by peri-aortic leakage, who was successfully treated by thoracic aortic stentgraft placement. This was done in a hybrid operating room associating the characteristics of a classical operating room for cardio-vascular surgery with those of an interventional radiology suite.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie cardio-vasculaire et thoracique, CHU de Liège, Belgique. cardiovasc@chu.ulg.ac.be
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bruls
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Van Damme
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sakalihasan
authors.forename: J-O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Defraigne
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents