Hybrid treatment of ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm: endovascular stent-graft placement and extraanatomic reconstruction without sternotomy

Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2007 Mar;33(3):306-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2006.09.025. Epub 2006 Nov 9.

Abstract

Conventional surgical repair of ascending aortic pseudoaneurysms following prior cardiac operations is performed with a high operative mortality. We report a 67 year old female patient with an ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm detected 3 years after coronary bypass surgery. The patient was treated with ascending aortic endovascular stent graft placement and extraanatomic reconstruction of supraaortic branches without using sternotomy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Anastomosis, Surgical
  • Aneurysm, False / epidemiology
  • Aneurysm, False / surgery*
  • Aortic Aneurysm / epidemiology
  • Aortic Aneurysm / surgery*
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / methods*
  • Comorbidity
  • Coronary Artery Bypass
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Stents*
  • Sternum / surgery
  • Surgical Wound Infection / epidemiology