Successful treatment of thoracic aortic graft infection by omental flap following vacuum‐assisted closure therapy

Omental Flap for Thoracic Aortic Graft Infection

Potential role of omental wrapping to prevent infection after treatment for infectious thoracic aortic aneurysms.

OBJECTIVES Postoperative infection control is one of the most important issues for infected aortic aneurysms, and the methods of preventing recurrent infection remain controversial. We previously reported that omental flaps could prevent or reduce the occurrence of infection after implanting an artificial aortic graft. However, the long-term outcomes of this strategy are unknown. We used imagin...

Laparoscopic Mobilization of an Omental Flap for a Chronic Scarpa Triangle Suppuration after Vascular Graft Infection.

We report a case of laparoscopic mobilization of an omental flap (left epiploic vessels) which was used to solve a Scarpa triangle chronic suppuration after a vascular prosthesis infection (coverage of bovine pericardium patch angioplasty for closure of the defect resulting after the excision of the vascular graft). The procedure lasted 90 minutes and was performed using 3 trocars and standard ...

Late lumen loss in thoracic aortic end graft after endovascular procedure of a traumatic pseudoaneurysm

We report the case of a 23-year-old woman who died due to endograft stenosis 20 months after thoracic endovascular aortic repair. The patient presented with the pseudocoarctation syndrome. Although angioplasty of stenosis endograft was successfully performed, severe metabolic complications were lethal.

Endovascular stent-graft treatment of thoracic aortic dissection.

Endovascular stent-graft implantation technique is a newly developed, effective and less invasive method in treating thoracic aortic dissection (TAD). Our study was designed to further verify the feasibility, the efficacy, and safety of this technique. We present a 4-year follow-up report of endovascular stent-graft treatment over 36 cases of acute TAD patients and 40 cases of chronic TAD patie...