Fenestrated stents are used for the management of complex juxta-renal, para-renal or thoracoabdominal aneurysms in patients with high surgical risk and/or contraindicated for open surgery. These endovascular techniques have demonstrated their safety and efficacy, however, long-term follow-up CT scans remain essential for the detection of complications such as endo-leaks and restenosis/thrombosis of visceral and renal stents. The respiratory cycle might induce changes in the geometry and deformations of visceral and renal stents after complex aortic procedures. These could be detected by an adapted CT scan analysis by deep inhalation and deep exhalation acquisition carried out pre-operatively and post-operatively for monitoring of these same stents and screening for complications.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
15
The study procedure foresees to take images during a deep breath as well as deep exhalation. This second measurement does not require the administration of an additional amount of contrast material. However, the exposure time to ionising radiation is doubled. The examination uses helical acquisition in fast mode. The duration of the helix is of the order of 2 seconds in the inspiration phase, then there is a delay of 5 seconds of machine time ("half-turn") and again 2 seconds of exposure in the expiration phase, i.e. 4 seconds of actual exposure to ionizing radiation, the time of image taking and 9 seconds the total time of the examination.
Hopital Marie Lannelongue
Le Plessis-Robinson, France
Geometry of the visceral and renal branches
An angioscanner will be performed with injection in inspiration and expiration (breathing cycle) before and after stent placement for a fenestrated aortic endografts. After reconstruction of a 3D volume of the aorta and extraction of the central lines of the different target arteries, the angle of the different visceral and renal branches will be measured during the respiratory cycle (inspiration; expiration) and compared before and after stenting.
Time frame: 1 day
Endoleaks number
Time frame: 3 months
stenosis number
Time frame: 3 months
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