Abdominal aortic aneurysm in Behçet's disease: treatment with endovascular stent graft.
A case of acute rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with Behçet's disease is reported. The patient was successfully treated by implantation of an endovascular stent graft. The preinterventional diagnostic procedures and the postinterventional follow-up are described and the benefit and risk vs open surgery is discussed.
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Radiologisches Institut, Katharinenhospital, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany. s.erpenbach@katharinenhospital.de
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Tremmel-Lehnert
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D000328:Adult; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D001027:Aortography; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D015607:Stents