Nowadays, percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation is a successful alternative to surgery for patients requiring treatment of pulmonary valve dysfunction. However, owing to the wide variety of implantation site morphology, size and dynamics, only about 15 per cent of cases are suitable for current devices. In order to increase the number of patients who could benefit from minimally invasive pr...

Background: Aortoesophageal fistula (AEF) caused by the ingestion of foreignbodiesis rare and often life threatening. We aim to summarize effective measures to improve the curative effect and survival rate. Case Reports: Between January 2010 and September 2015, three patients with AEF received endovascular stent-graft treatment in our hospital. Through the effective prevention of hemorrhage by ...

PURPOSE We performed this study to identify the rate and determinants of and associated outcomes with spinal cord infarction among patients treated with aortic stent graft placement at a national level. METHODS We analyzed the data files from Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) from 2002 to 2011. We performed multivariate logistic regression analysis to assess the rates of moderate to severe di...

Background: We investigated the efficacy, preoperative, postoperative and early stage outcomes of Anaconda type endovascular stent-grafts in patients who had intervention in our clinic with the diagnosis of abdominal aortic aneurysm. Material – Methods: During the years of 2010 and 2013, 23 patients (19 male, 4 female) had endovascular stent-graft procedure with the diagnosis of infrarenal abdo...

We describe our experience with stent-graft placement in a patient with a clinically diagnosed syphilitic aortic aneurysm.The patient was a 43-year-old man with syphilitic and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection. Computed tomography (CT) revealed an aortic aneurysm with 89 mm in maximum size which was located at distal aortic arch and was considered syphilis derived saccular aneurys...

AIM To evaluate the feasibility of repairing a common bile duct defect with a decellularized ureteral graft in a porcine model. METHODS Eighteen pigs were randomly divided into three groups. An approximately 1 cm segment of the common bile duct was excised from all the pigs. The defect was repaired using a 2 cm long decellularized ureteral graft over a T-tube (T-tube group, n = 6) or a silico...

OBJECTIVE To describe our experience with endovascular stent-graft repairs in type B aortic dissection focusing on serious secondary complications resulting in immediate or late conversion to open repair. METHODS From November 1997 to May 2007, 28 patients underwent a thoracic endovascular stent-graft procedure for acute symptomatic type B dissection at our institution. Indication for endovas...

A patient with hypopharyngeal cancer developed carotid blowout syndrome (CBS) treated by self-expandable stent-graft in the left carotid artery. CT scan for progressive right hemiparesis 4 months later showed multiple left cerebral abscesses and left carotid thrombosis. Although deployment of stent-grafts for CBS can achieve initial hemostasis in patients with head-and-neck cancer, the placemen...

Endovascular treatment of a giant extracranial internal carotid aneurysm by a stent graft implantation was unsuccessful due to a high flow leak directly through the stent graft's coating. The problem was solved deploying a second stent graft inside the previously implanted one resulting in complete exclusion of the aneurysmal sac and patent carotid lumen preservation. The review of the literatu...

Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair with the Endurant™ stent-graft system has been shown to be safe and effective in high-risk surgical patients with complex suprarenal and/or infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm anatomy. The wireformed M-shaped stent architecture and proximal springs with anchoring pins theoretically permit optimal sealing in shorter and more angulated proximal aneurysm necks ...