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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on February 4, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(5):431-432; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi119
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To stent or not to stent aortic dissection: good news for a chosen few, but who?

Christoph A. Nienaber1,*, Valeria Skriabina1, Wolfgang Schareck2 and Hüseyin Ince1

1Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Rostock, Rostock School of Medicine, Ernst-Heydemann-Strasse 6, 18057 Rostock, Germany
2Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Rostock, Rostock School of Medicine, Rostock, Germany

* Corresponding author. Tel: +49 381 494 77 00; fax: +49 381 494 77 02. E-mail address: christoph.nienaber@med.uni-rostock.de

This editorial refers to ‘Endovascular stent-graft treatment of aortic dissection: determinants of post-interventional outcome’{dagger} by H. Eggebrecht et al., on page 489

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Eggebrecht and colleagues,1 report their single centre experience with the interventional use of endovascular stent-grafts in the setting of both chronic and acute thoracic aortic dissection, referred to or recruited by a group of cardiologists and followed up for between 1 and 57 months. The group at the West German Heart Centre in Essen confirm the reported feasibility and report a high technical success rate for endovascular stent-grafting in the hands of skilled practitioners,2–5 associated, however, with an 11% non-fatal periprocedural complication rate.

Interestingly, though not surprisingly, multivariate analysis of their 38 cases revealed only parameters such as advanced age and poor health status . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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