Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the effect of renal stent-graft placement on kidney function and size alternation in chronic aortic dissection. Materials and Methods: Twenty-five consecutive patients with chronic aortic dissection after thoracic endovascular aortic repair who underwent renal stent-graft placement between January 2015 and December 2016 were retrospectively reviewed. Forty-three patients with chronic aortic dissection who received thoracic endovascular aortic repair in the same period were reviewed as a control group for kidney volume comparison. Results: Twenty-five stent-grafts were deployed over 25 renal arteries. Overall renal function was assessed by the slope of the regression line constructed from the plots of creatinine clearance versus time within 2 years after the procedure (–0.2810 vs –0.3146 mL/min–1/mo–1, P =.868), kidney volume at 12 months (129.4 ± 40.9 vs 137.0 ± 44.2 cm2, P =.193) and effective renal plasma flow at 6 months (106.3 ± 46.9 vs 124.4 ± 55.5 mL/min, P =.050) and was not significantly deteriorated. Seven treated patients (87.5%) with a renal artery supplied by a false lumen had a decrease in kidney volume, as did 14 patients (56%) in the control group (P =.206). Three patients with a dissected renal artery (75%) in the stent-graft group had an increase in kidney volume compared with 1 patient (11.1%) in the control group (P =.052). Conclusions: Occlusion of the re-entry tear by a stent-graft in the renal artery remains a safe strategy to promote false lumen thrombosis. The stent-graft poses a potential risk of reducing the kidney volume in kidneys supplied by the false lumen but may provide a positive effect in kidney volume with a concomitant dissected renal artery in chronic aortic dissection.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 979-986 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 1 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine