Stent Graft Treatment for Multiple Aneurysms of Thoracic Aorta in Behcet's Disease.
10.4326/jjcvs.27.180
- VernacularTitle:ベーチェット病に合併した多発性胸部大動脈りゅうに対しステントグラフト内挿術を施行した１例
- Author:
Satoshi Kawaguchi
;
Shin Ishimaru
;
Nobusato Koizumi
;
Tarou Shimazaki
;
Norio Uchimura
;
Yukio Obitsu
;
Hiromitsu Tsuchida
;
Mikio Ishikawa
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Japanese Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
1998;27(3):180-183
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
A patient with mutiple aneurysms of the thoracic aorta in Behçet's disease was treated with transluminally placed endovascular stent grafts. Stent graft devices composed of several units of self-expandable Z stents covered with ultra-thin woven Dacron were inserted through 18 Fr sheaths via the femoral arteries. The stent grafts were deployed successfully and blood flow into the aneurysms was reduced immediately and no blood endoleak was found on aortography. However minor endoleak due to migrations of the stent grafts was recognized in two distal descending aortic aneurysms twenty days after the operation. Extra stent grafts were inserted to interrupt the endoleak and finally all aneurysms were thrombosed without any endoleak. Former surgical replacement of the aorta due to aneurysms associated with vasculo-Behçet's disease often causes anastomotic leakage and pseudoaneurysms. The endoluminal stent graft treatment is a minimally invasive operation in comparison with former surgical operations, and is useful for aortic aeurysms especially for inflammatory aneurysms in Behçet's disease because it requires no anastomotis. However, improvement of the stent graft devices, including components of the delivery system such as the dilator, sheath and pushing rod, and the development of better devices, is required to reduce delivery failure and to make stent graft treatment more reliable.
