Treatment of secondary stent-graft collapse after endovascular stent-grafting for iliac artery pseudoaneurysms

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2007 Jan-Feb;30(1):111-5. doi: 10.1007/s00270-005-0251-5.

Abstract

We report the case of a patient who developed an asymptomatic pseudoaneurysm in the left external iliac artery after transplant nephrectomy. The pseudoaneurysm most probably arose as a suture aneurysm from the external iliac artery after removal of the graft renal artery. Obviously we can not exclude the possibility it was a true aneurysm, although this seems much less likely. The pseudoaneurysm was detected during a routine CT scan and was treated interventionally with a stent-graft. One month later the asymptomatic patient underwent a vascular ultrasound examination including color Doppler, power Doppler, and B-flow as a routine control. An endoleak with collapse of the stent-graft was diagnosed. There was no evidence of stent infection. At a reintervention, the pseudoaneurysm was successfully treated using two uncovered Palmaz stents at the proximal and distal edge of the stent graft. Peri- and post-interventional ultrasound and CT angiography confirmed the exclusion of the aneurysm without an endoleak.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aneurysm, False / diagnosis
  • Aneurysm, False / surgery*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Iliac Artery / diagnostic imaging
  • Iliac Artery / surgery*
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnosis
  • Postoperative Complications / surgery*
  • Prosthesis Failure*
  • Stents / adverse effects*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods
  • Ultrasonography, Doppler / methods