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Endovascular Management of Vascular Trauma

Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington, bwstarnes{at}comcast.net

Zachary M. Arthurs, MD

Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington

Over the past several decades, catheter-based and endovascular techniques have been used with increasing frequency for the management of trauma. This is particularly true for the management of solid organ injury and vascular injuries resulting from pelvic fracture with the use of embolization techniques for successful arrest of active hemorrhage. Likewise, there is a large body of literature regarding the management of acute traumatic vascular injuries involving traditional open surgical techniques. Currently, however, there is sparse literature on the management of vascular trauma with endovascular techniques. The endovascular management of vascular trauma seems particularly appealing in the management of blunt truncal injuries, especially in the setting of severe concomitant brain and lung injury. Extremity and neck injuries are probably best handled by traditional methods of surgical proximal and distal control, the exception to this being base of skull injuries where there is no ability for distal vessel control, and "watershed" areas between the trunk and extremities where proximal vascular control can be quite difficult. This chapter reviews current literature with regard to the endovascular management of traumatic vascular injuries with regions being broadly defined as neck, trunk, and extremity.

Key Words: endovascular • vascular • trauma • stent • carotid • aorta • subclavian • iliac • vena cava • extremity

Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Vol. 18, No. 2, 114-129 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1531003506293418


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