Treatment of a left common iliac aneurysm with endovascular Powerlink stentgraft in a patient with an occlusion of a left common iliac stent.
Isolated iliac aneurysms are uncommon and account for only 2% of all abdominal aneurysms. Typically, patients presenting with this pathology are operated on surgically. In our patient, however, surgery could have been an option but the patient had undergone a laparotomy more than 50 years earlier because of a gun-shot wound, so we preferred an endovascular repair. Furthermore, regular endovascular repair with a straight tube stentgraft was impossible due to the absence of a proximal neck. Consequently, we opted for placing a bifurcated stentgraft to exclude the iliac aneurysm.
Libeer
F
F
Department of Vascular Surgery, Imelda Hospital, Bonheiden, Belgium. flibeer@skynet.be
Peeters
P
P
Verbist
J
J
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D017543:Iliac Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D015607:Stents