title: Endovascular treatment of bronchial artery aneurysm with aortic stent-graft placement and coil embolization.
abstract: Bronchial artery aneurysm (BAA) represents a rare, but dangerous, pathology because its rupture can cause a life-threatening hemorrhage; opportune treatment is mandatory when a definite diagnosis is obtained. There are several reports of endovascular treatment of BAA with transcatheter arterial embolization and only few cases treated with aortic stent-graft exclusion. We report a case of mediastinal BAA close to thoracic aorta treated with a combined approach of stent-graft occlusion of the inflow and coil embolization of the outflow arteries.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Interventional Radiology, Maggiore della Carità Hospital, A. Avogadro University, Novara, Italy. guz@libero.it
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guzzardi
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cerini
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fossaceca
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Commodo
authors.forename: Ezio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Micalizzi
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carriero
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation; D001981:Bronchial Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D057510:Endovascular Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome