Treatment of a Left Common Iliac Aneurysm with Endovascular Powerlink® Stentgraft in a Patient with an Occlusion of a Left Common Iliac Stent

Abstract

Isolated iliac aneurysms are uncommon and account for only 2% of all abdominal aneurysms. Typically, patients presenting with this pathology are operated on surgically. In our patient, however, surgery could have been an option but the patient had undergone a laparotomy more than 50 years earlier because of a gun-shot wound, so we preferred an endovascular repair. Furthermore, regular endovascular repair with a straight tube stentgraft was impossible due to the absence of a proximal neck. Consequently, we opted for placing a bifurcated stentgraft to exclude the iliac aneurysm.

Key words:

• Iliac artery aneurysm
• endovascular repair
• EVAR.

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F. Libeer

F. Libeer, M.D. Brandhoutstraat 104 3800 Sint-Truiden, Belgium E-mail: [email protected]