Preoperative Internal Iliac Artery Coil Embolization for Aneurysms Involving the Iliac Bifurcation

Abstract

Endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms involving the iliac artery, which is seen in about 20% of patients, requires extension of the stent-graft limb into the external iliac artery.

Occlusion of the IIA is used to prevent a potential type II endoleak via retrograde flow in the IIA after covering the IIA origin with a stent-graft limb.

In this article, the major indications for coil-embolization of the internal iliac artery in aneurysmal disease are reviewed and discussed, as well as the technique and the outcome regarding endoleak incidence and complications.

Key Words:

• Internal iliac artery
• embolization
• coils
• abdominal aortic aneurysm
• endovascular stentgraft.

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S. Heye

S. Heye, M.D. Department of Radiology university Hospital Gasthuisberg Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven, Belgium Tel.: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [email protected]