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Between February 1995 and December 1997, 50 cases (55 lesions) of thoracic aortic aneurysms including 20 cases of aortic dissections were treated with an endovascular technique using the stent grafts. All patients were treated in the operating room under general anesthesia and the stent grafts were implanted through 18 Fr. or 20 Fr. sheathes via femoral arteries under fluoroscopic guidance. The stent graft was composed of several units of self-expanding stainlesssteel Z stents covered with an ultra-thin polyester fabric. Stent graft deployment was technically successful in 53 of 55 lesions (delivery success rate: 96.4%). Exclusion of the aneurysms and entry closing without endoleak were achieved within two weeks after the operation in 43 of 53 lesions (initial success rate: 81.1%). Endoleak was found in 10 lesions (minor endoleak: 8 and major endoleak: 2 lesions). Two patients died in the periopertive period of delivery failures as injury to external iliac artery and damage to the delivery sheath caused by tortuous and narrow access routes. Endovascular stent graft repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms is minimally invasive operation in comparison with conventional surgical graft replacement with extracorporeal circulation. These early results suggest that the stent graft repair is possibly safe and useful treatment for the patients of thoracic aortic aneurysms especially in high risk patients. However, careful long-term follow-up is necessary to prove the value and the effects of this endovascular treatment and improvement of the stent graft system and technical training of endovascular surgery for operators are required to reduce the delivery failure and to determin the stent graft repair is reliable treatment.
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Kawaguchi, S., Ishimaru, S., Shimazaki, T. et al. Clinical results of endovascular stent graft repair for fifty cases of thoracic aortic aneurysms. Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg 46, 971–975 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03217857
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03217857