1.Y-graft Replacement for Ruptured of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in an Elderly Patient
Takashi Ogino ; Tatsuo Kaneko ; Yasushi Satoh ; Masahiko Ezure ; Yutaka Hasegawa ; Hirotaka Inaba ; Toshiharu Yamagishi ; Shigeru Ohki ; Yasuo Morishita
Japanese Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2003;32(5):322-324
Y-graft replacement was successfully performed in a patient aged 93 years with ruptured infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm. The patient was in shock on arrival and underwent an emergency operation with the administration of cathecholamines. The ruptured infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm with a large hematoma, which was located in the area of the left common iliac artery, was 10cm in the maximum diameter. The bilateral common iliac arteries were strongly calcified and occluded. The distal end of the graft was anastomosed to the external iliac artery. The patient's postoperative course was uneventful.
2.A Practical Grading Scale for Predicting Outcomes of Radiosurgery for Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas: JLGK 1802 Study
Hirotaka HASEGAWA ; Masahiro SHIN ; Jun KAWAGISHI ; Hidefumi JOKURA ; Toshinori HASEGAWA ; Takenori KATO ; Mariko KAWASHIMA ; Yuki SHINYA ; Hiroyuki KENAI ; Takuya KAWABE ; Manabu SATO ; Toru SERIZAWA ; Osamu NAGANO ; Kyoko AOYAGI ; Takeshi KONDOH ; Masaaki YAMAMOTO ; Shinji ONOUE ; Kiyoshi NAKAZAKI ; Yoshiyasu IWAI ; Kazuhiro YAMANAKA ; Seiko HASEGAWA ; Kosuke KASHIWABARA ; Nobuhito SAITO ;
Journal of Stroke 2022;24(2):278-287
Background:
and Purpose To assess the long-term outcomes of intracranial dural arteriovenous fistula (DAVF) treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) alone or embolization and SRS (Emb-SRS) and to develop a grading system for predicting DAVF obliteration.
Methods:
This multi-institutional retrospective study included 200 patients with DAVF treated with SRS or Emb-SRS. We investigated the long-term obliteration rate and obliteration-associated factors. We developed a new grading system to estimate the obliteration rate. Additionally, we compared the outcomes of SRS and Emb-SRS by using propensity score matching.
Results:
The 3- and 4-year obliteration rates were 66.3% and 78.8%, respectively. The post-SRS hemorrhage rate was 2%. In the matched cohort, the SRS and Emb-SRS groups did not differ in the rates of obliteration (P=0.54) or post-SRS hemorrhage (P=0.50). In multivariable analysis, DAVF location and cortical venous reflux (CVR) were independently associated with obliteration. The new grading system assigned 2, 1, and 0 points to DAVFs in the anterior skull base or middle fossa, DAVFs with CVR or DAVFs in the superior sagittal sinus or tentorium, and DAVFs without these factors, respectively. Using the total points, patients were stratified into the highest (0 points), intermediate (1 point), or lowest (≥2 points) obliteration rate groups that exhibited 4-year obliteration rates of 94.4%, 71.3%, and 60.4%, respectively (P<0.01).
Conclusions
SRS-based therapy achieved DAVF obliteration in more than three-quarters of the patients at 4 years of age. Our grading system can stratify the obliteration rate and may guide physicians in treatment selection.