Journal of Vascular Medicine & Surgery

Barão T

Publications

• Research Article
  Endovascular Repair of Traumatic Subclavian Artery Injuries: A Single- Center Experience
  Author(s): Barão T, Queiroz AB, Apoloni R, Ricardo A and Nelson DLBarão T, Queiroz AB, Apoloni R, Ricardo A and Nelson DL
  
  Subclavian artery injury is a life-threatening condition and represents a challenge for trauma surgeons. Open surgical treatment often requires wide surgical exposures; including thoracotomy thus endovascular repair has emerged as a minimally invasive alternative. We report our single-center recent experience of fifteen patients with subclavian artery injuries, all of them treated by endovascular techniques. There were 9 blunt (60%) and 6 penetrating (40%) traumas and we had immediate operative success in all cases. Three patients presented with complete artery transections and were treated with a through-and-through technique. We believe endovascular treatment of subclavian artery injuries is a safe technique and can be performed in different types of trauma. .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-6925.1000229

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