Cartier R, Bui B, Poirier N, Searle N, Gôte G, Cartier B, Hudon G
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute, Quebec.
Can J Cardiol. 1999 Feb;15(2):223-5.
Recent technological improvement has allowed endoluminal correction of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysm through percutaneous insertion of expandable stents. A woman who presented with chronic pseudoaneurysm of the thoracic aorta 10 years after being in a car accident is presented. A Talent stent was introduced through the femoral artery and successfully deployed under fluoroscopic guidance across the aneurysmal defect. Recovery was uneventful, and 12 months later the patient remained asymptomatic.
