title: [Debranch Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Therapy for Extending Aneurysms].
abstract: To apply endovascular aortic repair for arch or thoracoabdominal pathology, it is essential to reconstruct the branches originating in the treatment area. In cases that a stentgraft has to reach ascending aorta we perform "in situ fenestration with squid capture technique".During the procedure cerebral circulation is maintained by percutaneous cardiopulmonary bypass. After deploying the stentgraft we stab it by a needle while squeezed by snare wire and stick a covered stentgraft eventually. Unlike chimney technique which also can be applied for zone 0 thoracic endovascular aortic therapy( TEVAR),this method has no risk of gutter leak. For now there are no fenestrated nor branched grafts in Japan so that we should perform hybrid TEVAR for throacoabdominal aneurysms if patients' conditions cannot allow graft replacement. In such a case we make bypasses between the common iliac artery( or left leg of bifurcated graft) and visceral arteries using a quadrated graft. All anastomosis can be done in a retroperitoneal single plane. TEVAR shouldn't be performed simultaneously with bypass because unstable hemodynamic increase risk of paraplegia. We have never experienced paraplegia among 50 cases except for 1 case in which TEVAR had to be done urgently under critical hypotension.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Oita University, Oita, Japan.
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D057510:Endovascular Procedures; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome