Endovascular procedures with placement of stent graft have become an accepted alternative
to traditional open surgery for treatment of descending thoracic aortic aneurysms,
ulcers, posttraumatic rupture, or complications of type B dissection, due to significant
reduction in perioperative mortality, rate of complications, and length of hospitalization.
Moreover, increasing operator experience and continuous advances in stent-graft technology
are making the treatment of a wider range of cases possible with redefinition of guidelines
for endovascular stent graft. The feasibility of endovascular stent graft is mainly
dependent on anatomic factors which represent the important predictors of the success
of this procedure as well as on strict follow-up in order to obtain early detection
and treatment of eventual complications.
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