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Endovascular Repair of Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injuries
- Source :
- Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 21:393-398
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2009.
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Abstract
- Blunt traumatic aortic injury is a highly fatal injury caused from rapid deceleration of the thorax. Most victims do not survive to obtain emergency medical care. Immediate open surgical repair had been the standard of care for decades, but more recent strategies and the emergence of thoracic aortic endografting have changed protocols for the treatment of this highly lethal lesion. This article reviews the current treatment of blunt thoracic aortic injury and the use of thoracic aortic stent grafting for this patient population.
- Subjects :
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Thorax
medicine.medical_specialty
Aorta, Thoracic
Prosthesis Design
Wounds, Nonpenetrating
Aortic stent
Aortography
Lesion
Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation
Blunt
Blood vessel prosthesis
medicine.artery
medicine
Humans
Surgical repair
Aorta
business.industry
General Medicine
Blood Vessel Prosthesis
Surgery
Treatment Outcome
Cardiothoracic surgery
cardiovascular system
Stents
medicine.symptom
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10430679
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3af661b1a75bcf85a6d5b001af1c2311