Repeat endovascular exclusion for distal tear after treatment of primary aortic dissection by endovascular exclusion

Vascular. 2010 Sep-Oct;18(5):288-91. doi: 10.2310/6670.2010.00049.

Abstract

An obese, hypertensive, 70-year-old man was found to have an extensive chronic Stanford type B aortic dissection. The dissection was treated by placement of a stent graft. One year later, he developed a small protrusion of the intimal flap at the distal end of the stent graft that gradually enlarged, until 4 years after the procedure, it had become disrupted, and angiography showed contrast medium entering the false lumen. A second stent graft was successfully placed, and imaging 2 years later indicated no recurrence of the tear, endoleak, or malperfusion of the aortic arch vessels.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aortic Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Aneurysm / surgery*
  • Aortic Dissection / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Dissection / surgery*
  • Aortography / methods
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation* / adverse effects
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation* / instrumentation
  • Chronic Disease
  • Endovascular Procedures* / instrumentation
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Reoperation
  • Stents
  • Time Factors
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome