Post-traumatic thoracic pseudoaneurysm repair with an endoluminal expandable stent

Can J Cardiol. 1999 Feb;15(2):223-5.

Abstract

Recent technological improvement has allowed endoluminal correction of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysm through percutaneous insertion of expandable stents. A woman who presented with chronic pseudoaneurysm of the thoracic aorta 10 years after being in a car accident is presented. A Talent stent was introduced through the femoral artery and successfully deployed under fluoroscopic guidance across the aneurysmal defect. Recovery was uneventful, and 12 months later the patient remained asymptomatic.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Accidents, Traffic
  • Aneurysm, False / diagnostic imaging
  • Aneurysm, False / etiology*
  • Aneurysm, False / surgery
  • Angiography
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / etiology*
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / surgery
  • Endoscopy
  • Female
  • Fluoroscopy
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Stents*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome