A case of blunt thoracic aortic injury requiring ECMO for acute malperfusion before TEVAR

A case of blunt thoracic aortic injury requiring ECMO for acute malperfusion before TEVAR

Abstract Background Blunt thoracic aortic injury (BTAI) is associated with a high mortality rate and the paradigm of treating patients with BTAI currently favours thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) if possible. In BTAI, lethal malperfusion caused by a pseudoaneurysm has rarely been report...

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Main Authors: Daiki Wada, Koichi Hayakawa, Shuji Kanayama, Shuhei Maruyama, Hiromu Iwamura, Noriyuki Miyama, Fukuki Saito, Yasushi Nakamori, Yasuyuki Kuwagata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Subjects:
Thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR)
Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA ECMO)
Blunt thoracic aortic injury (BTAI)
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13049-017-0456-z

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