Objective: To study the clinical value of the treatment of aortic aneurysms with endovascular stent-graft prosthesis.

Methods: After a unilateral surgical arteriotomy, Talent, Vanguard and Chinese stent-graft were advanced through the femoral arteries and placed in the proper position of the aneurysm sac under X-ray fluoroscopic guidance.

Results: Four patients with descending aneurysm, 1 patient with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) involving the renal artery, superior mesenteric artery and celiac artery, and 1 patient with right common iliac artery aneurysm received straight stent-grafts. Five patients with infrarenal AAA received bifurcated stent-grafts. CT and MRA were performed during a follow-up of 3 - 19 months. Aortic aneurysms were completely excluded from the circulation. Five patients prolonged fever was noted and 1 patient was found to have a leakage 3 months later, and hemiplegia in 1 after procedure.

Conclusions: Endovascular treatment of aortic aneurysm is technically feasible and can effectively exclude aortic aneurysms from the circulation. Endoluminal repair may serve as an interventional strategy to treat aneurysm, especially in patients at high surgical risk, but long term effect needs further study.