Investigating the Influence of Cardiac and Respiratory Pulsatility Deformation on the Abdominal Aorta Before and After the Implantation of the Fenestrated TREO.
Investigating the Influence of Cardiac and Respiratory Pulsatility Deformation on the Abdominal Aorta Before and After the Implantation of the Fenestrated TREO.
This is a national multicenter study with 25 patients with a complex AAA undergoing endovascular repair with the Fenestrated TREOâ„¢ stent graft. ECG and respiratory-gated CT scans will be performed pre-operatively, at discharge, after 6 months, and after 12 months follow up. If stent movement is still present in after 12 months, then another scan will be taken at 24 months. To include respiratory gated with the ECG-gated, patients will undergo ECG-gated CT scan during an inspiration breath-hold as well as an expiration breath-hold. This double gated CT scans will allow us to analyse the movement of the stent graft caused by the cardiac cycle and respiratory cycle.
The duration of this study is 2.5 years.
Fenestrated endovascular aortic repair (F-EVAR) uses stent grafts with customized fenestrations to treat complex aortic aneurysms in patients at risk of aneurysm rupture. The long-term durability of these stent grafts is hindered by complications requiring reintervention. Especially the perirenal fixation and sealing area is of vital importance. The customized fenestrations in the stent graft are cannulated with stents into the renal and/or mesenteric arteries, challenging the perirenal fixation. Once implanted, the aorta dynamics and the device affect each other in ways that are currently not understood. Pre and post- operative imaging of aortic aneurysm is routinely performed using computerized tomographic angiography (CTA). However, these static techniques do not consider the aorta dynamics. Consequently, our understanding of the dynamic behavior of the stent graft and stented target vessels is limited. ECG-gated CTA is a technique that takes the patient's heart cycle into account and taking the ECG-gated CTA during inspiration and during expiration takes the patients respiratory motion into account, creating a double gated CT scan. This double gated CTA enables studying the motion of aorta and implanted devices.
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