title: Endovascular management of a large post-traumatic iliac arteriovenous fistula: utilization of a septal occlusion device.
abstract: We describe the management of a large iliac arteriovenous fistula in a 48-year-old patient presenting with heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. The presumptive etiology was a left-lower back stab wound approximately 20 years earlier. A large communication between the left internal iliac artery and the left internal iliac vein was successfully treated with a septal occlusion device.
authors.affiliation: Arizona Heart Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. andersoncu@ecu.edu
authors.forename: Curtis A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Robert K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Strumpf
authors.forename: Edward B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Diethrich
mesh_terms: D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004867:Equipment Design; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D007084:Iliac Vein / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011669:Pulmonary Wedge Pressure; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013318:Stroke Volume; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014951:Wounds, Stab / Q000150:complications*