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Can endovascular techniques successfully repair a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm previously treated with an endoluminal stent-graft?
Can endovascular techniques successfully repair a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm previously treated with an endoluminal stent-graft?
Endovascular techniques can be successfully utilized to treat late ruptures of abdominal aortic aneurysms previously treated with endoluminal stent-grafting.
May support endovascular salvage for select post-EVAR ruptures; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Purpose: To demonstrate the feasibility of endovascular repair of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) previously treated with an endoluminal stent-graft. Case Report: An 84-year-old man with a 9.5-cm AAA underwent endoluminal repair with an Endologix stent-graft, but a type I endoleak was detected postprocedurally. The patient was discharged and lost to follow-up. Twenty months later, he suffered an aneurysm rupture, which was repaired using endovascular techniques. Although he had a postoperative course complicated by aspiration pneumonia and renal failure, he recovered fully and was discharged from the hospital with no evidence of endoleak on the postprocedural imaging studies. Conclusions: Late ruptures after endoluminal AAA stent-grafting can be successfully treated with endovascular techniques.
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