European experience with Relay: a new stent graft and delivery system for thoracic and arch lesions

Autor: Riambau, V, RESTORE collaborators: Zipfel, B, Esteban, C, Verhagen, Hj, Tealdi, Dg, Czerny, M, Funovics, M, Schoder, M, Goicolea, J, Palanca, Am, Lopez Minguez JR, Coppi, G, Kaskarelis, I, Mangialardi, N, Muños, A, Garcia, I, Doblas, M, Vecchiati, E, Emilia, R, Ferro, C, Passerone, G, Martinelli, L, Royo, J, Rousseau, H, Berti, S, Sassi, Carlo, Ricci, C, Chiesa, R.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2008
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Popis: Thoracic endografting is a very attractive therapeutic approach for thoracic aorta pathologies. Still some technological limitations need to be solved. Relay represents a new endograft specifically designed for thoracic aorta. The two-year clinical outcomes are presented.RESTORE is a multicenter, European, prospective and monitored clinical registry. Patients with thoracic pathologies (acute or elective) suitable to be treated with Relay stent-graft were consecutively enrolled. Preoperative demographic data, procedure details, in hospital assessment and two year-follow-up outcomes were registered and analyzed.A cohort of 150 patients (125 males and 25 females) was included. Aneurysm was the most common pathology treated (64.7%) followed by dissections (19.3%). Overall technical success rate was 97.33%. Paraplegia rate was 3.3%, recovered paraparesis in 3.3% of the cases and stroke rate was only 0.6%. Successful reinterventions were necessary in 8.7% of the cases; one trans-thoracic intervention due to a retrograde type A dissection. The 30-day mortality rate was 10%. Four non-related mortality were recorded during surveillance. Reintervention rate during two year-follow-up was 8.9% due to two stent graft migrations, three proximal type I endoleak, four type III endoleak and five distal type I endoleaks. No open conversion was needed during follow-up. No wire form ruptures were observed during the follow-up period.Relay provides a safe and accurate thoracic stent grafting for different aortic pathologies with acceptable mortality and morbidity. Associated stroke rate was clearly inferior to the expected.
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