False lumen access for trans-septal thoracic endovascular aortic repair in a 10-cm dissecting thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm

J Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech. 2021 Nov 11;8(1):93-97. doi: 10.1016/j.jvscit.2021.10.013. eCollection 2022 Mar.

Abstract

Endovascular treatment of the chronically dissected aorta can be especially challenging due to unending variations in post-dissection configurations. Traditionally, basic principles of thoracic endovascular aortic repair rely on bilateral femoral access and deployment of a stent-graft within the true lumen. In the present report, we describe a case of trans-septal thoracic endovascular aortic repair in a patient with complex chronic residual type B aortic dissection (1,10) with dilation up to 10 cm in the context of a chronically occluded right external iliac artery, and a left iliofemoral system supplied by the false lumen.

Keywords: Aortic dissection; False lumen; TEVAR; Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm; Trans-septal.

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