Bilateral femoral artery aneurysms in a patient with long-standing traumatic paraplegia: report of a case.
The etiology of femoral artery aneurysms is believed to involve the interaction of a genetic alteration that predisposes to the loss of arterial wall integrity. This is precipitated by local forces such as repeated flexion of the arteries at the hip. We describe herein a case of bilateral femoral and right internal iliac artery aneurysms that developed in a patient with long-standing paraplegia. This could suggest that alterations in the arterial wall caused by stress and kinking during hip flexion may not play a principal role in the pathogenesis of nonspecific femoral artery aneurysms.
Flores
Jorge Adalberto
JA
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
Nishibe
Toshiya
T
Kudo
Fabio
F
Miyazaki
Keiko
K
Matsuzaki
Kenji
K
Yasuda
Keishu
K
D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005263:Femoral Artery; D006801:Humans; D017543:Iliac Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D007083:Iliac Artery; D008297:Male; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000150:complications*