Transapical Deployment of Thoracic Stent Graft for Ascending Aorta Coronary Bypass Pseudoaneurysm in a Patient with Prosthetic Aortic Valve

Abstract

The authors describe the transapical deployment of a thoracic endograft to exclude a saphenous vein graft proximal anastomotic pseudoaneurysm following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in a 63-year-old male with a prosthetic aortic valve. A standard thoracic endograft has been deployed via transapical access after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of the native vessel perfused by the patent CABG. The procedure was uneventful; an 8-month computed tomography scan showed complete exclusion of the pseudoaneurysm with patency of supra-aortic trunks.

Keywords

transapical - ascending aorta - CABG pseudoaneurysm

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