title: Endovascular stent-grafting for recurrent aneurysm in Behcet's disease.
abstract: Arterial aneurysms represent a severe complication of Behcet's disease. A 42-year-old woman with Behcet's disease had a recurrence of an aneurysm after two surgical repair attempts using grafts. A covered stent-graft was implanted in her iliac external artery to occlude the neck of the aneurysm at the anastomosis of the bypass graft to her external iliac artery. The procedure reduced the size of the aneurysm by allowing the formation of a thrombus within its cavity. The implantation of an endovascular stent-graft may be a sound alternative to surgical repair for aneurysms associated with Behcet's disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Niigata City General Hospital, Niigata, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Hirotaka
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Oda
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamaura
authors.forename: Kazuyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miida
authors.forename: Naoya
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakazawa
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kanazawa
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Higuma
authors.forename: Yoshifusa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Aizawa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D012008:Recurrence; D015607:Stents