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Advances in the treatment of blunt thoracic aortic injuries

Challoumas, Dimitrios and Dimitrakakis, Georgios 2015. Advances in the treatment of blunt thoracic aortic injuries. Injury 46 (8) , pp. 1431-1439. 10.1016/j.injury.2014.10.065

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Abstract

Blunt thoracic aortic injuries, even though rare in incidence, carry significant mortality rates and their management still remains challenging. There have been major shifts in diagnosing and treating these injuries in the last 5 decades, which proved to be beneficial in terms of mortality and complications. Endovascular repair has been increasingly used for definitive treatment and its outcomes appear to be at least equally safe and effective as those of open repair. We present a balanced review of the relevant literature regarding the most appropriate approach and definitive treatment of these pathological entities. Based on the studies analyzed, endovascular repair is increasingly being established as the choice of treatment, however, the conventional open surgical approach still remains a safe method for severe injuries; the mortality, complication rates and proven longterm results of the latter are continuously improving. Additionally, delayed repair, where appropriate, seems to be a safe option with very low mortality rates. Despite the encouraging short and midterm outcomes reported, endovascular treatment needs to be assessed in the longterm for more accurate conclusions to be drawn about its durability and safety.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0020-1383
Date of Acceptance: 29 October 2014
Last Modified: 07 Jun 2019 08:21
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/79190

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