1. The Role of Stent-Grafts in the Management of Aortic Trauma
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Christophe Cron, J. Auriol, Bertrand Leobon, Hervé Rousseau, Philippe Otal, Camille Dambrin, Sophie Combelles, Valérie Chabbert, Bertrand Marcheix, Ramiro Moreno, and Omar Elaassar
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Diagnostic Imaging ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Wounds, Nonpenetrating ,Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation ,Blunt ,Blood vessel prosthesis ,medicine ,Humans ,Survival advantage ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Aorta ,Acute aortic syndrome ,business.industry ,Open surgery ,Stent ,Vascular System Injuries ,medicine.disease ,humanities ,Blood Vessel Prosthesis ,Surgery ,Open repair ,Stents ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Paraplegia ,human activities - Abstract
Stent graft has resulted in major advances in the treatment of trauma patients with blunt traumatic aortic injury (TAI) and has become the preferred method of treatment at many trauma centers. In this review, we provide an overview of the place of stent grafts for the management of this disease. As a whole, TEVAR repair of TAIs offers a survival advantage and reduction in major morbidity, including paraplegia, compared with open surgery. However, endovascular procedures in trauma require a sophisticated multidisciplinary and experienced team approach. More research and development of TAI-specific endograft devices is needed and large, multicenter studies will help to clarify the role of TEVAR compared with open repair of TAI.
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- 2011