• Yoshikazu Hachiro, Yoshihiko Kurimoto, Kiyofumi Morishita, Joji Fukada, Yasuaki Fujisawa, Nobuyoshi Kawaharada, and Tomio Abe.
• Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, S 1, W 16, Chou-ku, Sapporo, 060-8543, Japan.
• Surg. Today. 2005 Jan 1; 35 (4): 317-9.

AbstractThere are few published reports on endovascular stent grafting for thoracic aneurysms in Jehovah's Witnesses. Between 2001 and 2003, we performed endovascular stent grafting for a thoracic aneurysm in three patients of the Jehovah's Witness faith. Two patients had a thoracic aortic aneurysm and one had a chronic type-B dissection. The stent graft was constructed from a self-expanding Z-stent and thin-walled woven polyester fabric. None of the patients required perioperative blood transfusion, there was no postoperative endoleak, and all recovered uneventfully and were discharged from hospital. Thus, stent-graft repair of thoracic aneurysms in Jehovah's Witnesses is feasible and can be achieved without the need for blood transfusion.

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