Alternative Treatment for Residual Aortobronchial Fistula After Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair

Innovations (Phila). 2016 Nov/Dec;11(6):453-456. doi: 10.1097/IMI.0000000000000327.

Abstract

A patient with an aortobronchial fistula secondary to a thoracic endovascular aortic repair was successfully treated with a re-thoracic endovascular aortic repair with debranching technique. Five months postoperatively, the aneurysm had shrunk; however, computed tomography revealed air in the thrombo-excluded aortic aneurysmal sac without signs of infection. Because of worsening air finding at the eighth month, we performed a resection of the residual fistula and wrapped the stent graft in a pedicled muscle flap.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aorta, Thoracic / surgery*
  • Arterio-Arterial Fistula / diagnostic imaging
  • Arterio-Arterial Fistula / etiology
  • Arterio-Arterial Fistula / surgery*
  • Endovascular Procedures / adverse effects*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Pulmonary Artery / abnormalities*
  • Pulmonary Artery / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Artery / surgery
  • Reoperation
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome

Supplementary concepts

  • Aorta-pulmonary artery fistula