Midterm Results of Endovascular Treatment for Complete Iliac Axis Occlusions Using Covered Stents.

Background: Endovascular treatment of complex aortoiliac disease is seeing a growing popularity despite the Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus (TASC) II recommendations for open surgery in this cases. However, the available evidence does not focus particularly on patients with complete unilateral iliac axis obstruction (CIAO) (TASC II D4 group). This study reports mid-term results of endovascular therapy with covered stents for CIAO.

Hybrid Repair of an Innominate Artery Mycotic Aneurysm with an "On-The-Table" Customized Endograft.

Background: The objective of this report is to present a challenging case of a mycotic aneurysm of the innominate artery (IA) in a patient with a bovine aortic arch.

Materials And Methods: An 85-year-old woman presented with intermittent fever and positive blood cultures for Staphylococcus aureus. An echocardiogram and a positron emission tomography-computed tomography were performed, showing a hypermetabolic dilation of the IA compatible with a mycotic aneurysm with a type one bovine aortic arch.

Hybrid aortic repair with antegrade supra-aortic and renovisceral debranching from ascending aorta.

Aortic dissection is a life threatening condition. Hybrid repair has been described for the treatment of complex aortic pathology such as thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAA) and type A and B dissections, although open and total endovascular repair are also possible. Open surgery is still associated with substantial perioperative morbi-mortality rates, thus less invasive techniques such as endovascular repair and hybrid procedures can achieve good results in centers with experience.

Complex Aortic Aneurysm: A Current Indication for Debranching.

Conventional open repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms is still associated with severe complications and shows immediate mortality rates up to 20%. Although there is an increasing number of cases treated exclusively by an endovascular approach, renovisceral debranching still represents a valid alternative in high-risk patients for open surgery and in those patients where endovascular procedures are not feasible due to anatomic limitations or are not available when patients cannot wait for treatment. Herein we report the case of a patient with multiple surgical interventions and an extensive aortic aneurysm, complicated with a chronic contained rupture of the renovisceral aorta, who was successfully treated by means of a hybrid technique involving renovisceral debranching after discarding a pure endovascular management due to anatomical criteria.