Endovascular repair of an innominate artery pseudoaneurysm using the Valiant Mona LSA branched graft device

Endovascular repair of an innominate artery pseudoaneurysm using the Valiant Mona LSA branched graft device

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A 60-year-old woman involved in a motor vehicle collision presented with a traumatic ashy bines protein powder pseudoaneurysm of the innominate artery origin in addition to multiple concomitant injuries.She was classified as a high-risk candidate for open repair.An experimental thoracic branched graft device was used for coverage of the injury with the addition of a right carotid-to-left carotid-to-left subclavian artery bypass.Follow-up imaging showed resolution of the pseudoaneurysm and diamond painting strand en zee patency of her bypass grafts.This is the first described use of the Mona LSA Branch Thoracic Stent Graft System (Medtronic, Minneapolis, Minn) in the innominate artery.