Aortic arch debranching and thoracic endovascular repair

Conclusions: Despite the perioperative mortality risk, the late outcome of endovascular arch repair presents a low rate of aorta-related deaths and reinterventions and acceptable midterm survival. Furthermore, more than one-third of the aneurysms' diameters decrease over 5 years as a measure of the long-term efficacy of treatment. Retrograde type A dissection remains a major concern in the perioperative period and careful arch approach is required.

Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - September 3, 2013 Category: Surgery Authors: Paola De Rango, Piergiorgio Cao, Ciro Ferrer, Gioele Simonte, Carlo Coscarella, Enrico Cieri, Gabriele Pogany, Fabio Verzini Tags: Clinical research studies Source Type: research