title: Endovascular treatment of symptomatic true-lumen collapse of the downstream aorta after open surgery for acute aortic dissection type A.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the present study was to evaluate the outcome of endovascular treatment of true-lumen collapse (TLC) of the downstream aorta after open surgery for acute aortic dissection type A (AADA).
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective, observational study with follow-up of 16 ± 7.6 months. From April 2010 to January 2012, 89 AADA-patients underwent aortic surgery. Out of these, computed tomography revealed a TLC of the downstream aorta in 13 patients (14.6%). They all received additional thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) in consequence of malperfusion syndromes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In all 13 TLC-patients, dissection after AADA-surgery extended from the aortic arch to the abdominal aorta and malperfusion syndromes occurred. Remodeling of the true-lumen was achieved by TEVAR with complemental stent disposal in abdominal and iliac arteries in all cases. One patient died on the third postoperative day due to intracerebral hemorrhage. Another patient, who presented under severe cardiogenic shock died despite AADA-surgery and TEVAR-treatment. Thirty-day mortality was 15.4% in TLC-patients (N = 2/13). In the follow-up period, 3 patients required additional aortic stents after the emergency TEVAR procedures. After 20 weeks, a third patient died secondary to malperfusion due to false-lumen recanalization. Therefore, late mortality was 23.1%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  After proximal aortic repair for AADA, early postoperative computed tomography should be demanded in all patients to exclude a TLC of the descending aorta. Mortality is still substantial in these patients despite instant TEVAR application. Thus, in case of TLC and malperfusion syndrome of the downstream aorta, TEVAR should be performed early to alleviate or even prevent ischemic injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic and , Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
authors.forename: L O
authors.initials: LO
authors.lastname: Conzelmann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Doemland
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Weigang
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Frieß
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schotten
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Düber
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Vahl
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001011:Aorta / Q000473:pathology*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D057510:Endovascular Procedures; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000628:therapy*; D015607:Stents