Most deaths were not related to aneurysm but rather to other ... of stent graft repair of unruptured thoracic aorta in 13 studies (n = 497). Rupture of the aorta (3.8%) and graft migration ...

Untreated thoracic aortic aneurysms may rupture, which has a dismal outcome ... and studies from which independent data for thoracic aortic aneurysm could not be separately extracted were excluded.

The fatal complication of an ascending aortic aneurysm is rupture and/or aortic dissection ... and only minimal portions of the descending thoracic aorta. Transesophageal echocardiography is ...