Post-traumatic thoracic pseudoaneurysm repair with an endoluminal expandable stent

Recent technological improvement has allowed endoluminal correction of thor acic and abdominal aortic aneurysm through percutaneous insertion of expand able stents. A woman who presented with chronic pseudoaneurysm of the thora cic aorta 10 years after being in a car accident is presented. A Talent ste nt was introduced through the femoral artery and successfully deployed unde r fluoroscopic guidance across the aneurysmal defect. Recovery was uneventf ul, and 12 months later the patient remained asymptomatic.