Table 1.

Case series and results of open stent grafting for atherosclerotic aneurysm of the distal arch

References	Years	Number	In-hospital mortality	Stroke	Spinal cord injury	Secondary intervention on the downstream aorta
Usui [3]	2002	24	0	1 (4 %)	4 (17 %)
Sueda [10]	2004	34	2 (5.9 %)	1 (2.9 %)	1 (2.9 %)	1 (2.9 %)
Flores [11]	2006	25	3 (12 %)	4 (16 %)	6 (24 %)
Shimamura [12]	2008	69	2 (2.9 %)		4 (5.8 %)	4 (5.8 %)
Uchida [6]	2010	58	1 (1.7 %)	2 (3.4 %)	2 (3.4 %)	1 (2 %)
Di Bartolomeo [13]	2010	22	3 (14 %)	7.50 %	2 (8.1 %)	3 (14.9 %)
		210	11 (4.7 %)		19 (8.2 %)	9 (4.3 %)