Intragraft Obstructive Thrombus Two Years After Endovascular Repair of Traumatic Aortic Injury: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) is the treatment of choice for blunt thoracic aortic injury (BTAI) and has proven to be a good alternative to open surgery. TEVAR requires less operation time, has fewer complications, can be used for relatively unstable patients, and is associated with a significantly lower mortality rate. Moreover, long term follow up data demonstrate low re-intervention rates and stentgraft failure.

Report

The case of a 21 year old man who sustained severe trauma, including a traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta distal to the left subclavian artery in 2016, is presented. The patient was treated by TEVAR. Two years later, he presented with progressive paraplegia due to stentgraft occlusion occurring four days aft

SUBMITTER: Beijer E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8652008 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature