Combining fusion-imaging and intravascular ultrasound guidance to facilitate transcatheter electrosurgical septostomy through preexisting entry tears during endovascular repair of dissecting aneurysms.

Michele Piazza, Elda Chiara Colacchio, Marco James Bilato, Francesco Squizzato, Michele Antonello

Abstract readCase Reports

In one paragraph

Article in Journal of vascular surgery cases and innovative techniques, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

2citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

Best of 2025-Thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms and dissections.Journal of vascular surgery cases and innovative techniques · 2026
Article
Intercostal Artery Screening with Color Doppler Thoracic Ultrasound in Pleural Procedures: A Potential Yet Underexplored Imaging Modality for Minimizing Iatrogenic Bleeding Risk in Interventional Pulmonology.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
Review

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Michele PiazzaDepartment of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Section, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Elda Chiara ColacchioDepartment of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Section, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Marco James BilatoDepartment of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Section, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Francesco SquizzatoDepartment of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Section, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Michele AntonelloDepartment of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Section, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcatheter electrosurgical septotomy aids the adequate expansion of fenestrated or branched endografts in patients with a postdissection thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm and a narrow true lumen. Still, the intraprocedural identification of preexisting reentry tears in the septum can be challenging and time consuming. We report four cases of post-dissection thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms endovascular treatment, where computed tomography angiography fusion imaging was used during transcatheter electrosurgical septotomy in association with intravascular ultrasound examination, to improve precision in septum tear cannulation and favor procedural length and radiation exposure reduction.

Indexed as

Aortic dissectionElectrosurgical septotomyFusion-guided imaging

Identifiers

PMID40496665

DOI10.1016/j.jvscit.2025.101818

PMCPMC12151662

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata

LicenceCC BY-NC-ND

Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.