Hybrid management of a 13-year-old boy with a descending thoracic aortic injury from an impaled knife

Lefa Shelile; Siphumelele Ngema; Tshenolo Kgopane; Mohammed Docrat; Mosimanegape Pule

doi:10.1016/j.jvscit.2025.101740

Hybrid management of a 13-year-old boy with a descending thoracic aortic injury from an impaled knife

Lefa Shelile^*, Siphumelele Ngema, Tshenolo Kgopane, Mohammed Docrat, Mosimanegape Pule

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Abstract

Pediatric major thoracic vascular trauma is a rare occurrence, with the majority of cases being related to blunt trauma to the chest. We present a hybrid management of a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed with a knife, resulting in an injury to the descending thoracic aorta. The patient was managed using a thoracic endovascular aortic repair technique (using a 24 mm × 82 mm iliac limb stent). There were no major complications encountered intraoperatively or postoperatively.

Original language	English
Article number	101740
Journal	Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases, Innovations and Techniques
Volume	11
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvscit.2025.101740
Publication status	Published - Jun 2025
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Aorta
Injury
Pediatric
Stab
TEVAR
Thoracic

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