Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injuries: An Autopsy Study

endovascular repair of blunt traumatic thoracic aortic injuries

Endovascular Repair of Blunt Traumatic Thoracic Aortic Injuries

A 42-year-old female is involved in a motor vehicle accident and presents with a number of injuries. She is hemodynamically stable and is found to have multiple rib fractures, a hemopneumothorax, and several uncomplicated long bone fractures. A CT scan of her chest reveals a traumatic injury to her proximal descending thoracic aorta with evidence of pseudoaneurysm formation and surrounding hema...

Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injuries: New Perspectives in Management

Blunt thoracic aortic injuries (BTAIs) present a great challenge because of their potentially fatal outcomes. Recent advancements in their management have proved to be beneficial in terms of various parameters, including mortality and complications. Endovascular repair is now the treatment of choice in most centres and is continuously replacing the traditional open surgical method. We present a...

Traumatic Thoracic Aortic Injuries

T raumatic blunt injury to the thoracic aorta is one of the most formidable challenges surgeons face. This devastating condition can lead to immediate death at the time of injury in the majority of cases, due in part to either aortic transection or acute rupture.1 Although blunt aortic injury accounts for less than 1% of all adult level I trauma center admissions, this condition represents the ...

Operative Repair or Stent/graft in Blunt Traumatic Thoracic Aortic Injuries: Results of a Multicenter Aast Study

Demetrios Demetriades MD, PhD, George Velmahos MD, PhD, Thomas M. Scalea MD, Gregory J. Jurkovich MD, Pedro Teixera MD, James V. O’Connor MD, Riyad Karmy-Jones MD, Mark R. Hemmila MD, Forrest O. Moore MD, Jason London MD, Michael Sugrue MD, Michael J. Singh MD, Konstantinos Spaniolas MD, Marius Keel MD, Jonathan Hill MD, Mathew Wall MD, Ernest E. Moore MD, Alvaro Razur MD, Daniel Margulies MD, ...