Data set from Nano G, Muzzarelli L, Malacrida G, Righini PC, Marrocco-Trischitta MM, Mazzaccaro D. Endovascular repair of thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aortic lesions. Ann Ital Chir. 2019;90:191-200. PMID: 31354152.

<p>Data set from Nano G, Muzzarelli L, Malacrida G, Righini PC, Marrocco-Trischitta MM, Mazzaccaro D. Endovascular repair of thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aortic lesions. Ann Ital Chir. 2019;90:191-200. PMID: 31354152.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This is the abstract:</p> <p><strong>Background: </strong> We report our &quot;real-world&quot; experience of endovascular repair of thoracic/thoraco-abdominal aortic lesions in patients treated from May 2002 to May 2017.</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong> Data of all consecutive treated patients were retrospectively collected in a database and analyzed. Patients were divided into 4 groups: atherosclerotic thoracic/thoraco-abdominal aneurysms (TAA/TAAA) and floating thrombus (group A); acute complicated type B dissection (TBD), penetrating aortic ulcers (PAU) and intra-mural hematomas (IMH) in group B; chronic TBD evolving in TAA (group C); traumatic injuries (group D). Mortality, reinterventions and occurrence of neurological complications, both at 30 days and in the long term, were analyzed as primary outcomes for each group.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong> Ninety-four patients were treated complessively, most for a TAA (55.3%). Thirty-days deaths and neurological complications were observed in group A only (5 cases each, 5.3%). A reintervention was necessary in 6 patients (6.4%) of group A. At 5 years, in group A survival was 62.8%&plusmn;6.3% and freedom from neurological complication was 88.3%&plusmn;4.2%. Neither deaths nor neurological complications were recorded in the other groups. No late aortic ruptures were recorded. Freedom from reintervention in group A was 54.7%&plusmn;7.6% at 5 years and a reintervention was needed in all patients of group D. Overall, the main cause for reintervention was a type I endoleak.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions: </strong> The endovascular repair of thoracic/thoraco-abdominal aortic lesions had acceptable mortality and neurological complication rates, both at 30 days and in the long term. Reinterventions in the long term occurred more frequently after TAA/TAAA and traumatic injuries, and were mainly required for a type I endoleak.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>