title: First report of a late type III endoleak from fabric tears of a Zenith stent graft.
abstract: We report a case of a late type III endoleak from a hole in the fabric of the main body of a Zenith bifurcated endograft 7 years after implantation. Abdominal pain and a rapidly expanding aneurysm were eventually followed by rupture. The defect was detected at open surgery, whereas no evidence of endoleak was found at preoperative computed tomography (CT) or angiogram. The defect was repaired by a relining procedure with an Excluder stent graft. The patient, however, died 3 weeks after admission.
authors: Department of Surgery, Section of Vascular Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden. andwan@algonet.se
authors: Anders
authors: A
authors: Wanhainen
authors: Rickard
authors: R
authors: Nyman
authors: Mats-Ola
authors: MO
authors: Eriksson
authors: Martin
authors: M
authors: Björck
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000368:Aged; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D001027:Aortography / Q000379:methods; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation; D015607:Stents; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed