Aortic stent graft injury over active blood flow: over the fence

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A 72-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of chest pain at rest. She underwent thoracic endovascular repair (TER) using three stent grafts (GORE TAG 34x150, 34x200 and 26x200 mm; W. L. Gore & Associates, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA) with type B aortic dissection 5 years earlier (figure 1A). Coronary CT angiography (CTA) findings were inconclusive because of remarkable massive calcification in all coronary arteries. As a low-density area suspected of mural thrombus inside the second stent graft was detected (figure 1B), non-obstructive angioscopy was performed to evaluate graft failure besides invasive coronary angiography.1 No significant stenosis was found using invasive coronary angiography; however, suspicious blood flow through the graft was observed at the aneurysmal descending aorta in the middle of the second graft (figure 2 and video 1). Being uninfluenced by aortic blood flow, it was thought to exist...

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