Treatment of type B aortic dissections with endovascular grafting

Murat Uğurlucan,

Murat Uğurlucan¹, Ömer Ali Sayın¹, Bengühan Sürmen¹, Yakup Akyol², Onur Selçuk Göksel¹, Koray Güven², Ufuk Alpagut¹, Bülent Acunaş², Enver Dayıoğlu¹

¹İstanbul Üniversitesi İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi, Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul
²İstanbul Üniversitesi İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi, Radyoloji Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul

Nowadays, treatment of acute type B aortic dissections is still controversial. Many centers prefer medical follow up to radical open surgical treatment in the absence of complications secondary to the dissection; however, studies on endovascular treatment of the pathology are ongoing in a multicenter basis. In this report, we present two patients treated with endovascular grafting for type B aortic dissections at our institution together with the review of the literature.

Keywords : Aneurysm, dissecting/surgery; aortic aneurysm/ complications; blood vessel prosthesis implantation

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