Author(s)

Yasuhiko Kobayashi¹, Mitsugu Fukuda¹, Shoji Sakaguchi², Yoshihisa Nakao¹, Kiyoshi Nishimine¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yao Tokushukai General Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
²Department of Treatment in Aortic Stent Graft/Blood Vessel, Matsubara Tokushukai Hospital, Osaka, Japan.

We present a case of stent graft collapse after performing thoracic endovascular aortic repair with a custom-made fenestrated stent graft. The patient was a 70-year-old woman with an asymptomatic aneurysm of the distal aortic arch, and thoracic endovascular aortic repair was performed. The patient showed a blood pressure difference between the left arm and the right arm on postoperative day (POD) 17 prompting the performance of a chest computed tomography scan which revealed stent graft collapse. She then underwent staged debranching of thoracic endovascular aortic repair. Stent graft collapse is a rare but well-described complication of thoracic endovascular repair. Therefore, patients who undergo such a procedure should be carefully monitored for signs and symptoms, which suggest the possibility of stent collapse.

Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair, Collapse, Custom Made Fenestrated Stent Graft, Bird-Beak Deformity

Kobayashi, Y. , Fukuda, M. , Sakaguchi, S. , Nakao, Y. and Nishimine, K. (2023) Custom Made Fenestrated Stent Graft Collapse after Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair: A Case Report. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 12, 299-305. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2023.128042.