TY - JOUR
T1 - Endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic diseases: Follow-up and complications with multi-detector computed tomography angiography.
AU - Iezzi, Roberto
AU - Cotroneo, Antonio Raffele
AU - Marano, Riccardo
AU - Filippone, Antonella
AU - Storto, Maria Luigia
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Endovascular procedures with placement of stent-graft has become an accepted alternative to traditional open surgery for treatment of descending
thoracic aortic aneurysms, ulcers, post-traumatic rupture, or complications of type-B dissection, due to significant reduction in perioperative mortality, rate of complications and length of hospitalization. Moreover, increasing operator experience and continuous advances in stent-graft technology are making treatment of a wider range of cases possible with redefinition of guidelines for endovascular stent-graft. The feasibility of
endovascular stent-graft is mainly dependent on anatomic factors which represent the important predictors of the success of this procedure as well
as on strictly follow-up in order to obtain early detection and treatment of eventual complications. Multi-detector CT-angiography is a fast, safe, and minimally invasive imaging technique that represents the standard of reference in the follow-up of patients who have undergone endovascular stent-graft, as it is effective and specific in the detection of procedure-correlated complications. The purpose of this article is to give a brief review of those techniques most commonly used for endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic diseases
together with a more detailed description of post-procedural complications and their appearance on multi-detector CT-angiography.
AB - Endovascular procedures with placement of stent-graft has become an accepted alternative to traditional open surgery for treatment of descending
thoracic aortic aneurysms, ulcers, post-traumatic rupture, or complications of type-B dissection, due to significant reduction in perioperative mortality, rate of complications and length of hospitalization. Moreover, increasing operator experience and continuous advances in stent-graft technology are making treatment of a wider range of cases possible with redefinition of guidelines for endovascular stent-graft. The feasibility of
endovascular stent-graft is mainly dependent on anatomic factors which represent the important predictors of the success of this procedure as well
as on strictly follow-up in order to obtain early detection and treatment of eventual complications. Multi-detector CT-angiography is a fast, safe, and minimally invasive imaging technique that represents the standard of reference in the follow-up of patients who have undergone endovascular stent-graft, as it is effective and specific in the detection of procedure-correlated complications. The purpose of this article is to give a brief review of those techniques most commonly used for endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic diseases
together with a more detailed description of post-procedural complications and their appearance on multi-detector CT-angiography.
KW - CT-angiography
KW - Stent-graft
KW - CT-angiography
KW - Stent-graft
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/27168
U2 - 10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.09.022
DO - 10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.09.022
M3 - Article
SN - 0720-048X
VL - 2008/65
SP - 365
EP - 376
JO - European Journal of Radiology
JF - European Journal of Radiology
ER -