title: Endovascular treatment of a symptomatic aneurysm of the left subclavian artery.
abstract: Upper extremity ischemia is a rare entity usually due to emboli of arterial origin. Such thromboemboli produce acute symptoms of sufficient severity as to necessitate early surgical intervention. We report the case of a patient with severe ischemia in his left hand, in whom the embolic source was a mural thrombus localized at the level of a saccular aneurysm of the subclavian artery. After having excluded the presence of a thoracic outlet syndrome, the lesion was successfully treated by means of percutaneous implantation of a stent graft with the exclusion of the aneurysm and the sealing of the thrombus.
authors.affiliation: Interventional Cardiology Unit, Poliambulanza Hospital, Brescia, Italy. gbdanzi@tin.it
authors.forename: Gian Battista
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Danzi
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sesana
authors.forename: Raffaello
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bellosta
authors.forename: Cinzia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Capuano
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baglini
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarcina
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D000792:Angiography; D017546:Angioscopy; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001809:Blood Viscosity / Q000502:physiology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents; D013348:Subclavian Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D018616:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex