To discuss the discovery of stent graft mis-deployed into false lumen during aortic dissection treatment and re-deployment.

Retrospective analysis of the data of deployment of the stent-graft into the false lumen in the initial treatment of aortic dissection between January 2013 to December 2017. Of the five cases, there were three males and two females, range from 28 to 52 year old. Two patients, suffered from acute Stanford type A aortic dissection, with aortic surgical replacement and circulatory elephant trunk technique, displayed the visceral ischemia and internal environment disorder post-operatively. An emergency CT angiography showed that the deployed stent-graft was in the false lumen. Another two cases with sub-acute Stanford type B aortic dissection underwent TEVAR. The stent-grafts were put in the false lumen intra-operatively, one patient with pregnancy-induced hypertension suffered from acute Stanford type B aortic dissection. An emergency endovascular repair was set under general anesthesia to deal with this problem. New stent-graft was utilized to correct the blood flow into true lumen via flap fenestration or secondary intimal tear.

The successful rate of this operation was 100%. Time of surgery spanned from 45 minutes to 120 minutes, and blood loss was estimated to be from 50 ml to 100 ml. Five stent grafts were placed with 160 mm length and 6 mm taper and one was 120 mm length and 10 mm taper. Patients were observed in ICU for three days and discharged from hospital after seven days. No complications such as paraplegia, visceral ischemia, etc occurred. Postoperative aortic CTA one month later showed no complications, such as endoleak, etc. The stents were in ideal position, with fluent blood flow of aorta and major visceral artery.

Deployment of the stent-graft in the false lumen is a rare and critical complication in the treatment of aortic dissection. In addition to clinical manifestations and laboratory tests, aortic CTA could identify this complication quickly and accurately. Endovascular repair was recommended as primary treatment of choice, which could re-direct the blood flow into true lumen via flap fenestration or secondary intimal tear technology quickly and effectively.

Aneurysm, dissecting; Angioplasty; Stents; Angiography, digital subtraction; Tomography, X-ray computed