Extrapleural approach for thoracoabdominal infected aortic endograft: surgical and circulatory strategies.

Abstract

Video description: A 34-year-old male patient presented at the emergency department with fever, dysphagia and thoracic pain. His previous medical history consisted of caustic ingestion 18 years before, resulting in oesophageal-aorta fistula treated by aortic endograft placement and oesophageal exclusion with retrosternal colonic interposition. Diagnosis of thoracic stent graft infection was made based on clinical, microbiological and radiological criteria. After multidisciplinary consultation which involved thoracic surgery unit, the patient was considered eligible for aortic endoprosthesis explantation. The video shows the surgical intervention of removal of the aortic endograft and aortic reconstruction with homograft conduit by extrapleural approach in thoraco-phreno-laparotomy.