Endovascular Salvage of Thrombosed Thoracic Aortic Stent Graft Presenting as Sudden-Onset Heart Failure

Blunt traumatic aortic injuries are typically seen in the younger population and are most frequently related to motor vehicle collisions. Increasingly, endovascular stenting for treatment is being used because of the decreased mortality rate, decreased incidence of postoperative paralysis, and decreased need for systemic heparinization in patients with significant concomitant injuries compared with open repair. Because of the age of these patients, lifelong surveillance has been emphasized as the morphology of the aorta can change over time, and the aortic diameter changes with volume resuscitation.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Abstract from the 2019 Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society Annual Meeting Source Type: research