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1 Department of Radiology, Kurt Amplatz Center, Leopold-Franzens Medical School
and University Hospital Innsbruck, Anichstr. 35, 6020 Innsbruck,
Austria.
2 Department of Vascular Surgery, Leopold-Franzens Medical School and University
Hospital Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
OBJECTIVE. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and effectiveness of endovascular stent-graft placement for the emergency treatment of acute descending thoracic aortic disease.
MATERIALS AND METHODS. From January 1996 through November 2001, 18 patients underwent emergency endovascular stent-graft placement for various types of acute descending thoracic aortic disease. Five patients had Stanford type B aortic dissection, six had traumatic ruptures of the thoracic aorta, five had ruptured aortic aneurysms, and two had penetrating atherosclerotic aortic ulcers. All patients presented with life-threatening symptoms requiring treatment with stent-grafts from the emergency kit. All were at high surgical risk due to serious comorbidities. The efficacy of the procedure was assessed at follow-up studies before discharge and at 3, 6, and 12 months after intervention and yearly thereafter.
RESULTS. The primary technical success rate was 78%. Four patients had primary perigraft leaks. The secondary technical success rate was 83%. One patient died 20 hr after intervention from stent-graft—related causes. Follow-up studies revealed stent-graft migration in one patient. Progression of disease was observed in one patient treated for dissection and in both patients treated for penetrating ulcers. One patient died 7 months after intervention of unknown reasons; all other patients are alive. The mean follow-up time was 17.4 months (range, 0-38 months).
CONCLUSION. Emergency repair of acute descending thoracic aortic disease with stent-graft placement can be successfully accomplished and may be a promising alternative to open-chest surgery, especially in patients at high risk.
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