Giant Popliteal Artery Aneurysm: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Popliteal artery aneurysms (PAAs) are rare in general population but represent the second most common peripheral arterial aneurysms following those located in the aortoiliac segment. They usually affect men over 60 years old with established cardiovascular disease caused by atherosclerosis. Other more unusual conditions such as trauma, congenital popliteal aneurysm, mycotic aneurysm, inflammatory arteritis, or popliteal entrapment are responsible. The authors report the first ever case of a male diagnosed with chronic renal failure with giant popliteal artery aneurysm. We have successfully resected the aneurysm and revascularized with synthetic graft

Right subclavian double steal syndrome: a case report

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Retroperitoneal semi-closed eversion ring endarterectomy of the left common iliac artery as a bridge for EVAR in a patient with a bilateral obstructive iliac disease

Concomitant abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and bilateral iliac occlusive disease constitute a challenge for the application of endovascular repair of the aorta. We present the case of an 84-year-old man with an AAA, coronary disease, intermittent claudication of both legs, comorbidities including a hostile abdomen, and a stent protruding in the aneurysm sac following previous stenting of the right common iliac artery, and with a previous thrombosed axillobifemoral graft. We treated him with a hybrid retroperitoneal technique by placing an aortouniiliac (AUI) stent-graft via an intervening graft-conduit sutured to the bifurcation of the left common iliac artery following a semi-closed eversion ring endarterectomy of the left occluded common iliac artery. The intervening graft was then anastomosed to a new femoral-femoral bypass. The patient is in good condition with all vessels patent for twenty-one months following the operation

Complete abdominal aortic aneurysm thrombosis and obstruction of both common iliac arteries with intrathrombotic pressures demonstrating a continuing risk of rupture: a case report and review of the literature

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Although mural thrombus in an abdominal aortic aneurysm is frequent and its role has been studied extensively, complete thrombosis of an abdominal aneurysm is extremely rare and its natural history in relation to the risk of rupture is not known. The case of a patient with a completely thrombosed infrarenal aneurysm is presented along with a literature review.</p> <p>Case presentation</p> <p>We report the case of a 56-year-old Caucasian man with an infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm, presenting at our hospital due to critical ischemia of his right lower limb. Computed tomography and angiography demonstrated complete aneurysm thrombosis and obstruction of both common iliac arteries.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>During the operation, systolic and mean intrathrombotic pressures, measured in different levels, constituted 74.5-90.2% and 77.5-92.5% of systolic and mean intraluminal pressure and 73-88.4% and 76.5-91.3% of systemic pressure, respectively. Our findings show that there may be a continuing risk of rupture in cases of a thrombosed abdominal aortic aneurysm.</p