Emergency endovascular deployment of stent graft in the ascending aorta for contained rupture of innominate artery pseudoaneurysm in a pediatric patient

Ann Thorac Surg. 2006 May;81(5):1872-5. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.07.046.

Abstract

Endovascular approaches to treat aortic diseases have become an important alternative to open surgical intervention in aortic pathologies. We report a case of an emergency placement of a stent graft in a 16-year-old boy with a contained rupture of an innominate artery pseudoaneurysm. This patient had been previously treated for a mediastinal T-cell lymphoma and underwent mediastinal chemoradiation. He developed tracheal stenosis, requiring multiple tracheal reconstructive surgical procedures, and subsequently emergency ligation of a tracheal-innominate fistula. A pseudoaneurysm of the previously ligated innominate artery developed. Despite coil embolization, it continued to enlarge, requiring emergency endovascular intervention. A pseudoaneurysm of the previously ligated innominate artery subsequently developed, and despite coil embolization, it continued to enlarge, which required emergency endovascular intervention.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Aneurysm, False / surgery*
  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / surgery*
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / methods*
  • Brachiocephalic Trunk* / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / blood supply
  • Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  • Carotid Artery, Common / surgery
  • Embolization, Therapeutic
  • Emergency Treatment
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Prosthesis Design
  • Radiography
  • Regional Blood Flow
  • Respiratory Tract Fistula / surgery
  • Stents*
  • Tracheal Diseases / surgery
  • Tracheostomy
  • Vascular Fistula / surgery