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How should aortic arch aneurysms be treated in the endovascular aortic repair era?

Friday, June 20, 2014

Submitted by

Joel Dunning

Source

Source Name: European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/1/32.abstract

Author(s)

Yutaka Iba, Kenji Minatoya, Hitoshi Matsuda, Hiroaki Sasaki, Hiroshi Tanaka, Tatsuya Oda and Junjiro Kobayashi

The retrospective study compared 143 patients who underwent open aortic repair and 50 patients with hybrid thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) for non-dissecting aortic arch aneurysms. Patients with hybrid TEVAR recovered earlier from surgery, however, 3-year rates of freedom from reintervention were 80% in this group compared to 99% in the open group and (P < 0.001).