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Endovascular treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report.
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PMID:  20205854     Owner:  NLM     Status:  PubMed-not-MEDLINE    
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INTRODUCTION: Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms usually present in elderly patients with serious renal, pulmonary, cerebral, or cardiac comorbidities that pose a great challenge to the attending surgeon. Endovascular techniques for the treatment of thoracoabdominal aneurysms are not yet widely used due to limitations associated with them, such as spinal and visceral ischemia.
CASE PRESENTATION: An 87-year-old Caucasian man with a symptomatic Crawford type I thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm was treated successfully with a long tube stent graft using endovascular techniques and without any complication in follow-up examinations. The stent was placed distal to the left subclavian artery, and proximal to the celiac axis.
CONCLUSION: The use of endovascular stents for long segment thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms needs to undergo clinical investigation to determine whether this procedure decreases morbidity and mortality rates.
Authors:
Arash Mohammadi Tofigh; Massoud Ghasemi; Babak Heidari Aghdam; Mersedeh Karvandi; Afsoon Kaboli
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-02-02
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of medical case reports     Volume:  4     ISSN:  1752-1947     ISO Abbreviation:  J Med Case Rep     Publication Date:  2010  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-03-08     Completed Date:  2011-07-14     Revised Date:  2012-05-16    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101293382     Medline TA:  J Med Case Rep     Country:  England    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  37     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Imam Hossein Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Arash_mtofigh@yahoo.com.
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