Citation

Kpodonu J, Wheatley GH, Ramaiah VG, Diethrich EB. Interact. Cardiovasc. Thorac Surg. 2007; 6(6): 823-824.

Affiliation

Department of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery, Arizona Heart Hospital and Arizona Heart Institute, 2632 N.20th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85006, USA. jkpodonu@yahoo.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery)

DOI

10.1510/icvts.2007.159145

PMID

17804432

Abstract

Traumatic thoracic aortic disruption is a life-threatening lesion associated with a high surgical mortality. Endovascular stent graft repair is a minimal invasive approach that does not require a thoracotomy, aortic cross clamping and cardiopulmonary bypass. We report the use of an endoluminal graft to treat a 58-year-old male, who sustained multiple injuries including thoracic aortic disruption in a sky-diving accident due to failure of deployment of his parachute.

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