Bai J, et al. - Researchers sought to determine the safety, feasibility, and effectiveness of balloon-expandable bare metal stents (BMS) as bridge stents during thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR). They assessed 31 patients fulfilling requirements for inclusion and exclusion criteria in this retrospective analysis on 103 consecutive patients who underwent TEVAR procedures from December 2015 to March 2018. Outcomes support employing balloon-expandable BMS in ISF as safe and effective in the reconstruction of supraarotic arteries during TEVAR. They identified the technical success rate of 90.3% (28/31). Major complications (6.5%) comprised one dissection in the left subclavian artery (n = 1) and thrombus formation (n = 1) and minor complications (12.9%) comprised hematoma (n = 1), and type III endoleak (n = 3).