An 89-year-old man complaining of hemoptysis was transferred to our emergency room. On arrival, his consciousness was clear and coarse crackle was auscultated in the left upper lung field. After chest computed tomography (CT), he suddenly developed cardiopulmonary arrest and could not be resuscitated. Chest X-ray revealed a positive silhouette sign at the thoracic aortic arch (Picture 1), and t...

Endovascular stent grafting has been recently considered as a less invasive alternative to either medical therapy or open surgical treatment for many patients with descending thoracic aortic disease. Late complications are rarely described in literature. Herein, we described the occurrence of an aorto-bronchial fistula and a retro-A dissection in a 73-year-old man after stent-grafting for a pen...

Aortobronchial (AB) fistula is a rare disease, which is presented with massive hemoptysis; lethal if not treated. It should be suspected in any patient who presents with massive hemoptysis and had previous thoracic aortic surgery, but even it may be seen in patients without any history of operation on the thoracic aorta. Although, today in many centers endovascular therapy is done for these pat...

Aortobronchial fistula (ABF) induced by an infected pseudoaneurysm of the thoracic aorta is a life-threatening condition. As surgical treatment associated with significant mortality and morbidity, endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) may be alternative for ABF. However, long-term durability this intervention largely unknown recurrence ABF potential complication. We experienced case recurrent af...

OBJECTIVE To report our experience of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) for acute bleeding originating from the thoracic aorta in patients with aortobronchial fistula (ABF) or aortoesophageal fistula (AEF). PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of nine patients (three woman) were treated from September 1995 to March 2012 by TEVAR for ABF (n = 5) and AEF (n = 4). The implants (N = 14) were in...

e present a case report of a 78-year-old man that was dmitted in our Intensive Care Unit after an urgent surgical epair of a stent-grafting endoleak and an aortobronchial stula. Five years before this event, he had been submitted o a thoracic endovascular repair of a descending thoracic orta aneurysm. The immediate post-operative course was uneventful. our days after surgery, the patient develo...