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Treatment of Symptomatic Coral Reef Aorta by Endovascular Stent-Graft Placement

^a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
^b Department of Interventional Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Accepted for publication November 15, 2007.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Czerny, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, Vienna, A-1090, Austria (Email: martin.czerny{at}meduniwien.ac.at).

We report 2 patients who were referred for treatment of hemodynamically significant symptomatic stenosis of the aorta at the thoracoabdominal transition (coral reef aorta) that was causing abdominal angina and intermittent claudication. Both patients underwent successful transfemoral endovascular stent-graft placement and are free of symptoms, with regular findings at 6-month follow-up completion computed tomography scan.