New Advances in Branches Reconstruction During Endovascular Repair of Aortic Pathologies

Aortic dilatation pathologies, including aortic dissection and aortic aneurysm, pose a relatively high incidence, and can cause vital organ or limb infarction, even aortic rupture and death. Though other treatment options, such as medicine, open surgery and hybrid procedure, are becoming more readily available, endovascular techniques are an important and growing option for the treatment of aortic diseases. This trend, however, is causing controversies in all the areas across the aorta, such as the infra-renal abdominal aorta, thoracoabdominal aorta, descending aorta, and arch.

The main technical challenge of endovascular treatment for aortic pathologies is how to reconstruct and perfuse the vital branch arteries. Multiple techniques, such as Chimney technique, fenestration technique (including in-situ fenestration, on-table fenestration and customized fenestration), and branched stent-graft, et al, have been developed and are evolving to new dedicated endo-devices. These inspirational branch-reconstruction endovascular techniques and devices and their clinical results worth our attention.

We aim to investigate the best treatment modality, endo-devices designs and applications, and long-term results in the endovascular reconstruction of the branch artery during treatment of aortic diseases.

We welcome submissions on the following subtopics, but are not limited to:
- Endovascular treatment of infra-renal abdominal aortic diseases and hypogastric arteries reconstruction
- Endovascular treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic diseases: reconstruction of visceral arteries and advantages
- Endovascular reconstruction of vital branches of the aortic arch, especially the supra-arch branch arteries