Endovascular stent-graft placement for the management of a traumatic axillary artery pseudoaneurysm-a case report.
A 24-year-old woman with a right infraclavicular gunshot wound developed an axillary artery pseudoaneurysm. She was successfully treated by using a 5 cm Hemobahn stent-graft with a diameter of 6 mm. Postimplantation arteriography revealed normal flow through the axillary artery without evidence of leakage of contrast medium. Five months after the procedure, stenoses developed within the stent-graft owing to intimal hyperplasia and were treated by balloon angioplasty. The patient has been followed up symptom-free for 6 months after the second procedure.
Oktar
G Levent
GL
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Emergency and Traumatology Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. leventoktar@isnet.net.tr
Balkan
M Erkan
ME
Akpek
Sergin
S
Ilgit
Erhan
E
D000328:Adult; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D001366:Axillary Artery; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D015607:Stents; D017539:Tunica Intima / Q000473:pathology; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000150:complications*