@article{ref1,
title="Endovascular treatment of pseudoaneurysm of the thoracic aorta from a firearm injury",
journal="Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery",
year="2008",
author="Petrucci, Orlando and de Oliveira, Pedro Paulo Martins and Martins, Antonio Sérgio and Vieira, Reinaldo Wilson",
volume="7",
number="3",
pages="529-530",
abstract="A 24-year-old male patient was the victim of a firearm wound that penetrated the thorax. He arrived at another hospital hemodynamically unstable and was submitted to exploratory surgery by means of bithoracotomy. A lesion of the left branch of the pulmonary artery was detected and successfully repaired. He was submitted for computer-aided tomography on the fifth postoperative day, and a lesion of the mid-thoracic aorta was detected, which formed a saccular image. Considering that the patient had already been submitted to a bithoracotomy and that a direct approach to repair would involve another thoracotomy within a short period of time, endovascular treatment was chosen in our hospital. The procedure was performed under fluoroscopy. A second computer-aided tomography indicated adequate treatment of the lesion, with no indication of an endoleak. He has undergone ambulatory follow-up for 36 months without any problem related to the procedure. While endovascular treatment of the aorta has developed enormously, multicenter studies are needed to better define the long-term results of this approach.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1569-9293",
doi="10.1510/icvts.2007.172304",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1510/icvts.2007.172304"
}