over the last 50 years, significant progress has been made in the surgical repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (taaa).   improvements in perioperative care and surgical techniques have resulted in reductions in complication and mortality rates. adjunctive use of distal aortic perfusion and cerebrospinal fluid drainage has been especially helpful, reducing the incidence of neurological d...

conclusions this rare observation supports the role of immunosuppressive therapy in preventing the recurrence of life-threatening vascular lesions in the management of behcet’s disease. introduction arterial involvement in behcet’s disease has been previously described. we report a rare case of a large and long-segment thoracoabdominal aneurysm, which was associated with behcet’s disease and ha...

Type II chronic dissecting thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms are a surgically challenging disease. The conventional thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair technique using cardiopulmonary bypass is a high-risk procedure. However, a recently developed endovascular technique may be an alternative treatment for the disease, but faces the obstacle of lesional restriction. This new technique uses a ...

BACKGROUND To reduce some problems of traditional graft, we devise a modified multiple branched graft for repair of Crawford extent II and III thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA). CASE PRESENTATION We described a modified multiple branched graft for Crawford extent II and III thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) repair in 8 patients, Which comprised a main graft and three branches, and...

PURPOSE Endovascular surgery data are confirming the paramount role of modern endovascular tools for a safe and sure exclusion of thoracoabdominal lesions. CASE REPORT A 57-year-old female presented with severe comorbidity affected by a 58 mm thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA). After patient-informed consent and local Ethical Committee and Italian Public Health Ministry authorization, th...

Surgery for thoracoabdominal aorta actually began before the era of cardiopulmonary bypass. In the mid-1950s, Ellis et al., Etheredge et al., and DeBakey et al. opened a field of surgery for throacoabdominal aorta using allograft. In 1965, DeBakey reported their results as 26% mortality in 42 patients with thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms who underwent the extra-anatomical reconstruction of th...

OBJECTIVE Since the pioneering era of E. Stanley Crawford, our multimodal strategy for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair has evolved. We describe our approximately 3-decade single-practice experience regarding 3309 thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repairs and identify predictors of early death and other adverse postoperative outcomes. METHODS We analyzed retrospective (1986-2006) and pr...

In this endovascular era, open repair of thoracoabdominal aneurysm is a rare operation in regional hospitals. Adjuncts to the repair including left heart bypass and spinal cord protection remain controversial. This is a presentation of a successful case of open repair of a type II thoracoabdominal aneurysm in a local hospital, and a discussion of the overviews of current medical practice on thi...

Spinal cord infarction, especially anterior spinal artery syndrome, is a relatively rare disease. We report a case of spinal cord infarction caused by thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm with intraluminal thrombus. A 52-year-old man presented with sudden onset paraplegia. At first, he was diagnosed with cervical myelopathy due to a C6-7 herniated intervertebral disc, and had an operation for C6-7 ...

In the study, we sought to retrospectively analyze the effectiveness and safety of surgical repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm using the critical artery reattachment technique. Twenty-three consecutive thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm patients were treated using the technique of sequential aortic clamping and critical artery reattachment. The entire procedure was technically successful ...