Transplantation of a fresh cadaveric iliac homograft after celiac artery aneurysmectomy.
The authors describe a case of a 34-year-old woman who presented to the ER with acute epigastric pain caused by an 8-cm celiac artery aneurysm. The patient underwent total aneurysmectomy, distal splenopancreasectomy, and reconstruction of the hepatic arterial inflow using a fresh cadaveric iliac artery homograft. The patient was discharged home on postoperative day 8 in good clinical condition. After 60 months of follow-up, the patient is well and with a patent vascular homograft. The use of a fresh cadaveric iliac homograft described here may represent an option in young patients with low operative risk undergoing visceral artery aneurysm repair.
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Cristiano
C
Quintini
Fabrizio
F
Di Benedetto
Antonio D
AD
Pinna
D000328:Adult; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002102:Cadaver; D002445:Celiac Artery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000637:transplantation*; D058017:Vascular Grafting