Endovascular repair of acute traumatic thoracic aortic transection with laser-assisted in-situ fenestration of a stent-graft covering the left subclavian artery

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 457-463

  Murphy, Erin H ^a   Dimaio, J Michael ^a   Dean, William ^b   Jessen, Michael E ^a   Arko, Frank R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b United Regional Physicians Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic rupture; Blunt trauma; Excimer laser; Fenestrated stent graft; Left subclavian artery; Stent graft; Thoracic aorta; Thoracic endovascular aortic repair

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA INJURY; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEVICE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LASER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; RIB FRACTURE; STENT; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC REPAIR; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; STENTS; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 70350140378     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/09-2746.1     Document Type: Article

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