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Penetrating Atherosclerotic Ulcer: Presentation andManagement
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Early Management ofPAU
Initial management is directed at reducing radial, longitudinal and shear stresses on the aortic wall with medical therapy aimed at lowering systolic blood pressures and pulse pressures. In acute cases, with progression of a PAU towards intramural hematoma (IMH) or aortic dissection, the patient may present with unstable hemo­dynamics and urgent management is required. Medical management consists of using intravenous beta-blockers to target a heart rate of 60–80 beats per minute, a systolic pressure of 100–120mmHg and attempts to preserve end-organ perfusion [14, 15]. The main intravenous beta-blocking agents used in this setting are labet­alol and esmolol. Esmolol is preferred by many physicians, because of its short duration of action. Additionally, effective pain control should be instituted to aid blood pressure management. In hemodynamically unstable patients, or patients with radiographic evidence of (contained) rupture, emergent surgical repair should be performed.
Treatment Options forType APAU
Since there is a higher risk of complications of PAU in the ascending thoracic aorta, and it is often associated with IMH, the management usually consists of surgical intervention (Fig.3). Open surgical repair is the mainstay of therapy [15, 16], simi­lar to that seen in typical double barrel Type A dissection treatment.
Recently, there is an increasing interest in using thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) as an alternative treatment paradigm. Several centers have reported successful endovascular treatment of aortic pathology, such as aneurysm and dis­section, in the ascending aorta and transverse arch [17, 18]. Tsilimparis et al. reported on 10 patients undergoing ascending endograft placement. Four underwent cervical debranching, one received a fenestrated and one a branched endograft [17]. The technical success was 100%, the 30-day mortality was 10% and the stroke rate was 10%. Roselli etal. reported on 39 endovascular procedures with 35 stents hav­ing proximal and distal landing in Ishimaru zone 0, three occluder devices placed for pseudoaneurysms and one total arch endovascular procedure with an innominate side branch after cervical debranching [18]. Conversion to open surgery was per­formed in 10%, with the survival at 30days of 81% and the observed stroke rate of 10%. All patients had signicant associated comorbidities and were too high-risk for open surgery. This likely led to the relatively poor reported outcomes when com­pared to reports of open surgical repair. As only small cohorts of patients have been treated with this approach, and signicant complications are reported, endovascular treatment of the ascending aorta should be restricted to high risk patients who are deemed unsuitable for open surgical repair.
After successful repair of the aorta, imaging surveillance is mandatory to ensure there are no further aortic complications in either the treated, adjacent or
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remote aortic segments, particularly if endovascular therapy has been performed. Regular CT surveillance for endovascular procedures is performed at 1month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and annually after. Medical therapy is also required and typically consists of blood pressure management and control of lipids.
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Treatment Options forType B PAU
In patients with Type B PAU there are several options for management of the PAU (Fig.1). If a patient is hemodynamically stable, but symptomatic, medical therapy with intravenous beta-blocker and pain management is indicated. If the pain is recurrent or refractory, or there are other signs of impending rupture, repair should be performed urgently. If the patient can be stabilized and transitioned to oral anti­hypertensive medication and becomes asymptomatic, pre-operative planning can take place and the patient should be planned for early repair within 3months in select circumstances such as development of saccular aneurysms, or rapid expan­sion of aortic dimension.
TEVAR is an effective therapy for type B PAU and has evolved into the rst line strategy. The rate of endoleak and re-interventions are similar to those reported for TEVAR for other indications, and range from 0 to 13% and 0 to 20% respectively [14]. PAUs in patients with progressive disease are usually in more proximal aortic segments with the proximal descending thoracic aorta being the most common site [7]. In many cases, TEVAR needs to be performed in proximal landing is zone 2, and adjunctive left subclavian artery (LSA) management performed as per local practices.
Long-term follow-up on PAU post TEVAR is sparse. The current two longest reported clinical series had a mean follow-up of 51 and 53months. Demers etal. included 26 descending TEVARs and showed relatively low aortic event related mortality of 4% and an equally low aortic reintervention rate of 4% [19]. Mestres etal. included 22 PAUs and showed a similar aortic event related mortality rate 5% and a higher aortic reintervention rate of 14% [20]. The overall range of follow-up, mortality and reintervention rate ranged from 9–53 months, 0–13% and 0–20% respectively (Table1). These numbers suggest that at least in the rst 2 years after repair, TEVAR compares well to open repair mortality and that attention is needed on the durability of TEVAR.Patel etal. performed a comparison between descend­ing thoracic open repair and TEVAR and found excellent results with the endovas­cular approach [35]. Early outcomes from descending TEVAR case series over the last two decades can be found in Table2. Similar to those patients who presented with type A PAU, statin therapy, in addition to blood pressure control and long term imaging surveillance is indicated for the long-term management of these patients (Fig.4).
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Table 1 Late outcomes of contemporary clinical series (n>5) of descending endovascular repair of penetrating aortic ulcers
References Year N Endoleak Reintervention
Schoder etal. [ Kos etal. [ Eggebrecht etal.
[23] Demers etal. [ Brinster etal. [24] 2005 21 0 0 0 14 Eggebrecht etal.
[25] Dalainas etal. [ Pauls etal. [27] 2007 12 8% 0 0 28 Geisbüsch etal.
[28] Botta etal. [ Girn etal. [30] 2009 11 9% 18% 32 D’Souza etal. [31] 2009 20 15% 5% 0 24 Patel etal. [13] 2010 37 11% 16% 8% 33 Czerny etal. [32] 2011 72 4% 1% 1% 42 Palombo etal. [33] 2012 16 6% 0 13% 16 Mestres etal. [20] 2012 22 14% 14% 5% 53 Jánosi etal. [34] 2016 63 6% 19% 0 45
21] 2002 8 13% 0 13% 14
22] 2002 10 20% 10% 9
2003 10 10% 20% 0 24
19] 2004 26 14% 4% 4% 51
2006 22 5% 9% 0 27
26] 2007 18 6% 0 0 41
2008 48 23% 8% 31
29] 2008 18 17% 11% 0 22
Related mortality
Follow-up (months)
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Follow Up
Patients with a history of PAU and atherosclerotic aorta should be kept under life­long CT-surveillance. The guidelines for the rst period after surgery or diagnosis are CT angiography at 1, 3, 6 and 12months and hereafter annually [12, 15, 16]. If the patient remains asymptomatic and the aorta does not grow more than 5 millime­ters per year the interval can be increased. It should be noted that aggressive blood pressure control and lifestyle management are critically important to prevent com­plications during follow-up. PAU should be considered a chronic disease that neces­sitates lifelong treatment and surveillance.
Conclusion
PAU is a disease of the arterial wall and is mostly asymptomatic. If a patient devel­ops symptoms, they largely overlap with the other causes of AAS (AD and IMH). The management of PAU closely resembles the two other pathologies in acute aortic syndrome. Initial control consists of blood pressure management and pain
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Table 2 Early outcomes of contemporary clinical series (n > 5) of descending thoracic endovascular repair of penetrating aortic ulcers
PAU location
References Year N
Schoder etal. [
Kos etal. [
22]
Eggebrecht etal. [
Demers etal. [
Brinster etal. [
Eggebrecht etal. [
Dalainas etal. [
Pauls etal. [
27]
Geisbüsch etal. [
Botta etal.
29]
[ Girn etal.
[
30]
D’Souza etal. [
Patel etal. [
13]
Czerny etal. [
Palombo etal. [33]
Mestres etal. [20]
Jánosi etal. [34]
PAU penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer, SCI spinal cord ischemia
a
In-hospital or 30-day mortality
2002 8 100% 0 0 0 0 0 13%
21]
2002 10 100% 0 0 0 0 10%
2003 10 80% 20% 0 0 0 0 0
23]
2004 26 100% 0 0 4% 12% 4% 0
19]
2005 21 100% 0 0 0 0 0 0
24]
2006 22 73% 9% 18% 0 0 5% 0
25]
2007 18 89% 11% 0 0 0 0 0
26]
2007 12 100% 0 0 0 0 0 0
2008 48 71% 25% 4% 6% 4% 0
28]
2008 18 100% 0 0 5% 11% 0 0
2009 11 100% 0 0 0 18% 0 9%
2009 20 100% 0 0 5% 0 0 0
31]
2010 37 100% 0 0 27% 5% 5% 5%
2011 72 96% 1% 3% 35% 4% 3% 1%
32]
2012 16 81% 19% 0 25% 6% 0 6%
2012 22 100% 0 0 27% 5% 0 5%
2016 63 86% 0 14% 5% 8% 0 0
Adjunctive debranching
Early mortality
a
Stroke SCIThoracic Abdominal Both
management. Type A PAU necessitates urgent or early elective repair, depending on the hemodynamic stability and symptoms of the patient. Type B lesions are prefer­ably medically managed when asymptomatic and are managed by endovascular repair when symptoms or complications are present. Future advances in endovascu­lar technology may extend the patient population who benets from the less inva­sive approach.
B
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PAU on imaging
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Type A
open repair
Yes
BP management + pain
control (if present)
e.g. Saccular aneurysm,
Refractory pain, Extensive IMH
Yes
-Unsuitable anatomy for TEVAR
open repair
BP management and surveillance at 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and annually
-Suitable anatomy for TEVAR
Hemodynamically
stable?
Type B
Symptoms?
No
BP management and
CT surveillance at 3
months, 6 months, 12
months and annually
TEVAR
No
IV BP management
<120 mmHg systolic with end-organ
perfusion + IV pain control
Type A
Emergent/Urgent
open repair
Emergent/Urgent
open repair
Type
Emergent/
Urgent
TEVAR
Fig. 4 Flowchart for treatment decision-making in a patient with penetrating aortic ulcer
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Abbreviation
TEVAR Thoracic endovascular aortic repair
Introduction
Patients with acute type A aortic dissection require an immediate surgical interven­tion to survive [1, 2]. Yet survival after such surgery remains unacceptably low in patients with severe organ malperfusion and/or shock [2, 3], despite considerably improved surgical techniques [3], individualized organ protection and cannulation strategies [4] and integrated, standardized surgical management strategies [5]. In fact, while the predicted mortality of patients with acute type A aortic dissection without shock or malperfusion remains well below 10% even in the elderly, out­comes in older patients presenting shock and malperfusion are dismal, with pre­dicted mortality rates exceeding 50% [2]. Moreover, even in specialized high-volume centers, up to 8% of all patients with an acute type A aortic dissection are deemed inoperable [6].
Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has signicantly improved the perioperative results in the treatment of acute complicated dissections of the descending aorta compared to conventional open surgery [7]. Yet TEVAR’s use in the more proximal aortic segments, specically the ascending aorta, remains experi­mental and is limited to high-volume aortic centers with specialized aortic teams. In fact, although TEVAR in the ascending aorta remains the subject of only case reports and small case series [8], the rising numbers of successful TEVARs in the ascending aorta highlight this therapy’s feasibility. In patients with acute type A aortic dissection and a dismal perioperative risk, TEVAR may help to signicantly improve peri- und postoperative outcomes [2, 8, 9]. Nevertheless, four frontiers
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currently restrict the routine application of ascending aortic TEVAR to treat acute type A aortic dissection, namely, a physiologic, anatomic, medical, and technical frontier.
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Physiologic Frontier
The ascending aorta’s motion pattern is uniquely different from the more distal aortic segments such as the tubular, straight descending aorta. In fact, the ascending aorta’s ow and motion are signicantly inuenced by its non-planar curvature, specic inlet ow conditions from the aortic valve, radial expansion-contraction, and transational movement secondary to being attached to the beating heart [10]— effects that result in its substantial deformation, rotation, and craniocaudal move­ment [11]. The precise implantation of the stent-graft may be perioperatively feasible through rapid over-pacing, halting the heart’s ejection and the movement within the ascending aorta. However, when returning to a normal cardiac cycle, the interaction between a dissected, exible, and highly mobile ascending aorta and stiff tubular stent-graft remains unclear and the potential risk for stent-graft disloca­tion and other stent-graft induced complications is very high.
Stable xation to prevent stent-graft dislocation or migration can be ensured by oversizing the stent-graft in comparison to the native aorta. However, particularly in a dissected aorta, oversizing also signicantly increases the risk for stent-graft induced new entries and aortic rupture [12]. If we consider a stent-graft’s potentially unequal pressure distribution in the ascending aorta’s small and large curvature, the risk for stent-graft-induced complications may even be higher in the ascending aorta than in the straight, tubular aortic segments.
Lastly, two small studies, have recently suggested negative aortic remodeling entailing reduced biventricular function following the use of TEVAR in the descend­ing aorta [13, 14]. The impact of stiff endovascular grafts in more proximal aortic segments, particularly the ascending aorta compared with the native exible aortic wall, and elimination of the Windkessel effect need to be considered when perform­ing ascending aortic TEVAR.
Anatomic Frontier
The length of any stent-graft is dened as the distance between the proximal and distal landing zone. When using short stent-grafts, the landing zone should at least comprise 20mm to ensure the stent-graft’s durable xation and stabilization [15]. In addition, there must be no entry tear in either of the two landing zones [15]. In this respect, the length of an ascending aortic stent-graft is very limited by the need
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for proximal and distal landing zons, each measuring at least 20mm, as well as by the short distance between the aortic sinus with the coronary arteries’ offspring and the brachiocephalic trunk with the cerebral arteries’offspring. Because of these pre­conditions, high quality feasibility studies addressing the application of ascending aortic TEVAR with a straight stent-graft in patients with type A aortic dissection have identied just 32–46% of all patients as being potential candidates suitable for a conventional straight endovascular tube graft because the entry tear would need to be average length of 30–40mm in the mid ascending aorta for a straight stent-graft to adequately cover it [9, 16, 17]. Therefore, to treat more patients with ascending aortic TEVAR, shorter stent-graft landing zones seem inevitable, yet without addi­tional stent-graft anchorage, the risk for stent-graft-induced complications such as its migration would increase considerably. In addition, a perpendicular angle between the sinotubular junction and distal ascending aorta can further compromise the precise implantation of a straight stent-graft [18].
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Medical Frontier
A substantial number of patients with type A aortic dissection develop cardiac tam­ponade and/or moderate to severe aortic regurgitation [19]. The latter can be a major limitation for isolated ascending aortic TEVAR, while cardiac tamponade may be alleviated by simultaneous pericardial drainage or by transapical, antegrade stent­graft implantation. Antegrade implantation would both remove any pericardial effu­sion and simplify stent-graft implantation: true lumen wire placement would be simpler, the aortic arch’s steep curvature would be avoided, the risk for dissection membrane perforation would be reduced, and accurate and precise stent-graft deployment would be easier because of the shorter distance to the ascending aorta.
Technical Frontier
Currently and commercially available stent-grafts may not be ideal for deployment within a dissected ascending aorta, because most patients presenting an acute type A aortic dissection would require tapered stent-grafts because of signicantly dif­ferent sizes between the proximal and distal landing zones [9]. Moreover, stent­graft dislocation due to the jump phenomenon remains an issue during TEVAR deployment, and even slight displacements of the stent-graft in the short ascending aorta can have devastating consequences because of the high risk for coronary or cerebral malperfusion [20]. The stent-graft’s wedge apposition in the ascending aorta is another potential factor limiting durable stent-graft deployment within the ascending aorta as it can also raise the risk for stent-graft-induced complications.