Background: Our aim was to determine whether suprarenal fixation in endografts compromises renal artery (RA) flow and whether subsequent RA intervention is precluded by the stent struts.
Methods: Prospectively acquired data from 104 patients with endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) of an abdominal aortic aneurysm using the Zenith endograft (Cook, Inc., Bloomington, IN) were analyzed. The Zenith device uses a 26-mm, uncovered, barbed Z stent for suprarenal function.
Results: No RA stenosis, occlusion, or infarction resulted from the suprarenal stent. In 3 of 104 (2.9%) patients, RA compromise (2 stenoses, 1 occlusion) was caused by impingement of graft material on the lowermost RA. The 2 RA stenoses were stented successfully at 1 and 7 months post-EVAR. Six of 104 (5.8%) patients developed late stenoses unrelated to the endograft: all were stented successfully from 19 to 36 months after EVAR. One patient with severe RA stenosis had balloon angioplasty pre-EVAR and then was stented electively 6 weeks post-EVAR.
Conclusions: Our data show that the suprarenal fixation of the Zenith aortic endograft does not cause RA stenosis, occlusion, or infarction, nor does it preclude post-EVAR renal artery intervention.
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