title: Clinical impact of hypogastric artery occlusion in endovascular aneurysm repair.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the long-term results for patients treated with endovascular aneurysm repair and additional embolization and coverage of the hypogastric artery compared with patients treated with simple endovascular aneurysm repair.
  
  
  METHODS
  A database of our endovascular aneurysm repair patient cohort was reviewed to find patients with iliac artery aneurysms. The baseline characteristics, the procedural data and the results for patients treated with endovascular aneurysm repair and concomitant hypogastric artery embolization were compared with those for patients treated with simple endovascular aneurysm repair. The results were analyzed for significant differences.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of 106 endovascular aneurysm repair patients treated at our vascular unit from 2001 to 2010, 24 had undergone additional hypogastric artery embolization. The complication rate was significantly increased in this group (12.5% vs. 2.4%; p = 0.041), and the long-term results were significantly poorer. Additional hypogastric artery embolization resulted in late rupture (1.2% vs. 12.5%; p = 0.036), buttock claudication (8.6% vs. 43.8%; p = 0.001) and new onset erectile dysfunction (17.3% vs. 42.9%; p = 0.043).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Endovascular aneurysm repair with extension of the stent graft to the external iliac artery and embolization of the hypogastric artery was associated with more complications and worse long-term results compared with simple endovascular aneurysm repair.
authors.affiliation: Department of cardiovascular Surgery, Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen, Wels, Austria Department of Surgery, Elisabethinen Hospital, Linz, Austria manfred.kalteis@aon.at.
authors.forename: Manfred
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kalteis
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Elisabethinen Hospital, Linz, Austria.
authors.forename: Odo
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gangl
authors.affiliation: Department of cardiovascular Surgery, Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen, Wels, Austria.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Huber
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Elisabethinen Hospital, Linz, Austria.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Adelsgruber
authors.affiliation: Department of Interventional Radiology, Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen, Wels, Austria.
authors.forename: Manfred
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kastner
authors.affiliation: Department of Interventional Radiology, Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen, Wels, Austria.
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lugmayr
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000209:etiology; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D001317:Austria; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000009:adverse effects; D057510:Endovascular Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017543:Iliac Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D007383:Intermittent Claudication / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D010388:Pelvis / Q000098:blood supply*; D015607:Stents; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Endovascular aneurysm repair; hypogastric artery; iliac artery aneurysm