Table 3.
Details of published reports of thoracic endovascular aortic repair and incidence of retrograde type A dissection.
| First author | Year | Stent-graft detail | Total TEVARs (N) | TEVAR device | RTAD (n) | TEVAR in patients with RTAD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bare stent | Non-bare stent | Bare stent | Non-bare stent | |||||
| Czermak | 2002 | Talent (Medtronic) | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Kato | 2002 | Z stents covered with expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (Impra); Z stents covered with woven polyester | 28 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Palmer | 2002 | Thoracic Excluder (Gore); Talent (Medtronic) | 14 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 1 | NR |
| Fattori | 2003 | Talent (Medtronic); Thoracic Excluder (Gore) | 22 | NR | NR | 2 | NR | NR |
| Grabenwoger | 2004 | Talent (Medtronic) | 20 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Hansen | 2004 | AneuRx (Medtronic); Talent (Medtronic); and Excluder (Gore) | 24 | NR | NR | 1 | NR | NR |
| Lee | 2004 | Custom-designed stent-grafts (Impra); 2-component system consisted of a 3-part unsupported nitinol wire stents covered with a graft of synthetic polyester fabric (Dacron; Ube) | 37 | NR | NR | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dong Xu | 2005 | TALENT (Medtronic); ENDOFIT (Endomed); VASOFLOW (Vascore); AEGIS (Microport); KINPRIDE (Grikin) | 24 | NR | NR | 3 | NR | NR |
| Fattori | 2006 | Talent (Medtronic) | 180 | 180 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Duebener | 2007 | Talent and Valiant (Medtronic) | 13 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Zipfel | 2007 | Talent (Medtronic), E-vita (Jotec), Zenith TX1 (Cook), Relay (Bolton Medical), Endofit (Endomed), Valiant (Medtronic), and TAG (Gore). | 57 | NR | NR | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kpodonu | 2008 | TAG (Gore) | 91 | 0 | 91 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Neuhauser | 2008 | Thoracic Excluder (Gore); Talent (Medtronic) | 28 | NR | NR | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Dong | 2009 | Talent (Medtronic) | 443 | 401 | 42 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| Chiesa | 2011 | Not reported | 188 | NR | NR | 3 | NR | NR |
| Kim | 2011 | Talent or Valiant (Medtronic) | 41 | 41 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Oberhuber | 2011 | TAG/cTAG (Gore); Captivia and Valiant (Medtronic); Zenith (Cook) | 19 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Parsa | 2011 | TAG (Gore), Zenith TX2 (Cook), Talent (Medtronic) | 51 | 1 | 50 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Wiedemann | 2013 | Talent (Medtronic); Thoracic Excluder (Gore); Relay (Bolton Medical); Endomed (LeMaitre Vascular), Cook | 80 | 52 | 28 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Lotfi | 2013 | TAG; 8 C-TAG (Gore); TX2; 4 TX1 (Cook); Talent; Valiant (Medtronic); Relay (Bolton Medical); Endofit (LeMaitre) | 11 | NR | NR | 3 | NR | NR |
| Wiedemann | 2014 | Talent; Thoracic Excluder; Relay; Zenith; Hemashield; Valiant | 110 | 53 | 57 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| Faure | 2014 | Thoracic Excluder and C-TAG (Gore); Talent and Valiant (Medtronic); Zenith TX2 (Cook) | 41 | 9 | 32 | 1 | NR | NR |
| Idrees | 2014 | Gore, Cook, Medtronic | 766 | NR | NR | 15 | NR | NR |
| Zhang | 2014 | Hercules (Microport); Talent and Valiant (Medtronic); Zenith (Cook); Relay (Bolton Medical) | 252 | NR | NR | 2 | NR | NR |
| Gorlitzer | 2012 | Valiant (Medtronic); Thoracic Excluder (Gore) | 29 | 24 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Huang | 2013 | Talent (Medtronic); Hercules (Microport); Zenith TX2 (Cook) | 563 | 420 | 143 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Cochernnec | 2013 | Cook; Medtronic; Gore; Relay | 17 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Shuyang Lu | 2012 | Talent; Valiant; Hercules; Zenith TX2 | 419 | NR | NR | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| Yang | 2012 | Zenith TX2 (Cook) | 61 | 0 | 61 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Bunger | 2013 | Valiant (Medtronic); Zenith TX2 (Cook); Relay (Bolton Medical) | 45 | NR | NR | 1 | NR | NR |
| Canaud | 2014 | Talent, Valiant, AneuRyx (Medtronic); Vasoflow (Weike Medical); Relay (Bolton Medical); Grikin (Grikin); Ankura (Lifetech); E-vita (Jotec); TAG (Gore) | 309 | NR | NR | 11 | 11 | NR |
| Lombardi | 2012 | Zenith TX2 (Cook) | 40 | 0 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Jia | 2013 | Valiant (Medtronic); Zenith TX2 (Cook); Hercules (Microport) | 208 | NR | NR | 3 | NR | NR |
| Li | 2014 | Talent (Medtronic), Relay (Bolton), Zenith TX2 (Cook), Hercules (Microport), TAG (Gore), Valiant (Medtronic) | 669 | 168 | 501 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| Hanna | 2014 | TAG/cTAG (Gore); Zenith TX2 (Cook); Talent and Valiant with Captivia (Medtronic) | 50 | 17 | 33 | 1 | NR | NR |
| De Rango | 2014 | Zenith (Cook); TAG/cTAG (Gore); Relay (Bolton Medical); Talent and Valiant (Medtronic) | 104 | NR | NR | 4 | NR | NR |
| Appoo | 2015 | TAG and cTAG (Gore); Zenith TX2 (Cook) | 16 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Desai | 2015 | Valiant Captivia (Medtronic) (2 of 50; 5% at 1 year) and cTAG (Gore) (5 of 50; 10% at 1 year) | 132 | NR | NR | 9 | NR | NR |
| Kische | 2015 | Zenith; Valiant; Talent | 35 | NR | NR | 1 | NR | NR |
| Bockler | 2016 | cTAG (Gore) | 24 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Faure | 2016 | Excluder (Gore); TAG (Gore); Talent (Medtronic); Valiant (Medtronic), and Zenith TX2 (Cook) | 33 | NR | NR | 1 | NR | NR |
| Wang | 2016 | Talent (Medtronic); Captivia (Medtronic); Zenith TX2 (Cook); TAG (Gore); (Microport) | 360 | NR | NR | 5 | 4 | NR |
| Asaloumidis | 2017 | Talent (14); TAG (13); Excluder (2); Valiant (2); Captivia (6); Relay (2); AneuRx (1) | 40 | 24 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Zhao Liu | 2017 | Talent and Captivia (Medtronic); TX- 1/TX-2 (Cook); Hercules (Microport); Sinus (OptiMed) | 58 | NR | NR | 6 | NR | NR |
| Min-Hong Zhang | 2017 | Not reported | 85 | NR | NR | 3 | NR | NR |
| Tjaden | 2018 | CTAG or TAG (Gore) | 264 | 264 | 0 | 6 | 6 | NR |
| Tao Ma | 2018 | Talent and Valiant (Medtronic), Zenith TX2 (Cook), Hercules and Castor (Microport), Ankura (Lifetech), Relay (Bolton Medical), EndoFit (LeMaitre), E-vita (Jotec), and TAG (Gore). | 852 | NR | NR | 27 | NR | NR |
| Laquian | 2018 | Not reported | 27 | NR | NR | 1 | NR | NR |
| Chen | 2018 | Not reported | 167 | NR | NR | 1 | NR | NR |
| Piotr Buczkowski | 2019 | Zenith (Cook), JOTEC and Gore | 68 | 0 | 68 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Eleshra | 2020 | Not reported | 64 | NR | NR | 1 | NR | NR |
| Fukushima | 2019 | Zenith TX2 Pro-Form (Cook Medical), cTAG (Gore), Relay (Terumo Aortic), Najuta (Kawasumi) | 24 | NR | NR | 0 | NR | NR |
| Wang | 2019 | Valiant (Medtronic), CTAG (Gore), and TX2/Alpha (Cook Medical) | 397 | NR | NR | 6 | NR | NR |
| Yammine | 2019 | Valiant (Medtronic) | 186 | 172 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| Miura | 2019 | Relay (Terumo Aortic) | 22 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chassin-Trubert | 2020 | Valiant Captivia (Medtronic) | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pellenc | 2019 | TX2/TX2 alpha (Cook); cTAG (Gore); Relay (Terumo Aortic); Valiant (Medtronic) | 20 | NR | NR | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jiechang Zhu | 2018 | Valiant (Medtronic), Relay (Terumo Aortic) and Ankura (Lifetech) | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Riesterer | 2018 | Relay NBS (non-bare stent) (Bolton Medical/Terumo Aortic) | 34 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Giles | 2019 | Not reported | 258 | NR | NR | 12 | NR | NR |
| Kuo | 2019 | TAG/cTAG (Gore), TX2/Alpha (Cook), Valiant (Medtronic) | 71 | 40 | 31 | 2 | NR | NR |
| Joo | 2019 | Valiant (using the Captivia delivery system; Medtronic), Seal (S&G Biotech), TX2 (Cook), TAG (Gore), and unidentified | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Cao | 2020 | Zenith TX2 (Cook), Valiant (Medtronic), CTAG (Gore), Hercules (MicroPort) and Ankura (Lifetech) | 76 | 65 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| El-Beyrouti | 2020 | RelayPro NBS (Terumo Aortic) | 5 | NR | NR | 0 | NR | NR |
| Charltonouw | 2018 | Not reported | 43 | NR | NR | 3 | NR | NR |
| Lou | 2020 | Valiant with Captivia (Medtronic), Zenith TX 2 (Cook), and CTAG (Gore) | 91 | 80 | 11 | 3 | NR | NR |
| Lee | 2020 | Seal (S&G Biotech); Valiant (Medtronic); Zenith TX2 (Cook) | 87 | 51 | 36 | 2 | NR | NR |
| Oshi | 2020 | TAG or cTAG (Gore), Valiant (Medtronic), Zenith TX2 (Cook), and Relay Plus (Terumo Aortic) | 40 | NR | NR | 1 | NR | NR |
| Puech-Leao | 2020 | Not reported | 42 | NR | NR | 4 | NR | NR |
| Sobocinski | 2020 | Not reported | 41 | NR | NR | 2 | NR | NR |
| Shuo Zhao | 2020 | Not reported | 79 | NR | NR | 1 | NR | NR |
| Bavaria | 2015 | Valiant Captivia (Medtronic) | 50 | 50 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Peidro | 2018 | TAG/cTAG (Gore); Valiant/Talent (Medtronic); Zenith/Pro-Form (Cook) | 26 | NR | NR | 2 | NR | NR |
| Ding | 2018 | Valiant (Medtronic); Ankura (Lifetech); ZTEG-2PT (Cook) | 16 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Nozdrzykowskia | 2015 | TAG/cTAG (Gore); Talent/Valiant/Captivia (Medtronic); Zenith (Cook); and Endofit (LeMaitre Vascular) | 129 | NR | NR | 1 | NR | NR |
| Lei Liu | 2016 | Zenith TX2 (Cook); CTAG (Gore); Talent (Medtronic); and Hercules, Aegis, and Ankura (Microport) | 203 | 85 | 118 | 11 | 5 | 6 |
| Hu | 2019 | Valiant (Medtronic), TAG (Gore), Zenith TX2 (Cook), and Ankura (Lifetech). | 571 | NR | NR | 12 | 8 | 4 |
| Gao | 2019 | GRIMED (GRIMED) in 234 patients, Talent (Medtronic) in 20, Valiant (Medtronic) in 173, Hercules (MicroPort) in 125, Zenith TX2 (Cook) in 86, Relay (Bolton Medical) in 76 and E-vita (Jotec) in 37. | 751 | 665 | 86 | 4 | NR | NR |
NR = not reported, RTAD = retrograde type A dissection, TEVAR = thoracic endovascular aortic repair.