Use of a surgeon-modified branched thoracic endograft to preserve an aortorenal bypass during treatment of an intercostal patch aneurysm

J Vasc Surg. 2010 Sep;52(3):730-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2010.03.062. Epub 2010 Jun 15.

Abstract

A 72-year-old man presented with thoracic pain. Nine years earlier, a descending aortic dissection with aneurysmal degeneration had been treated by thoracoabdominal aortic graft placement with reimplantation of a visceral patch and an intercostal patch. A separate left aortorenal bypass had also been performed with the bypass originating from the thoracic portion of the graft. He now presents with a 7.2-cm intercostal patch aneurysm in the aortic segment containing the origin of the patent aortorenal bypass. We present the use of a surgeon-modified branched thoracic endograft to salvage an aortorenal bypass originating in a thoracic aneurysm after previous open thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging
  • Aneurysm / etiology
  • Aneurysm / physiopathology
  • Aneurysm / surgery*
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / physiopathology
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / surgery*
  • Aortography / methods
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / adverse effects
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / instrumentation*
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Prosthesis Design
  • Renal Artery / physiopathology
  • Renal Artery / surgery*
  • Renal Circulation
  • Reoperation
  • Replantation
  • Stents*
  • Thoracic Arteries / physiopathology
  • Thoracic Arteries / surgery*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome