Successful treatment of an abdominal aortic aneurysm by endovascular graft placement through a previously placed prosthetic graft: Report of a case.
A 77-year-old man with an infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm was referred with a complex medical history including pancreatitis, chronic renal failure, atrial fibrillation, and a cerebral infarction. He also had a history of atherosclerosis obliterans, treated with a vascular bypass using an 8-mm prosthetic graft 9 years previously. His complicated anatomy, including a small access route and a large common iliac artery, suggested usage of Powerlink, a bifurcated stent graft through the previously placed graft, as an access route. The patient was discharged from the hospital with a type III endoleak, which was completely resolved 5 months after discharge.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, 1-847 Amanuma, Omiya, Saitama, 330-8503, Japan.
Daijiro
D
Hori
Koichi
K
Yuri
Kazunari
K
Nemoto
Atsushi
A
Yamaguchi
Hideo
H
Adachi
D000368:Aged; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000601:surgery*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012086:Reoperation; D015607:Stents