IMR Press / RCM / Volume 22 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.31083/j.rcm2204159
Open Access Case Report
Fenestration of the intima to facilitate successful endovascular repair of a dissecting abdominal aneurysm
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1 Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Acibadem City Clinic, Cardiovascular Center, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
*Correspondence: strahilvasilevhealth@gmail.com (Strahil Vasilev)
Academic Editor: Efstratios Georgakarakos
Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2021, 22(4), 1547–1551; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2204159
Submitted: 15 August 2021 | Revised: 20 October 2021 | Accepted: 22 October 2021 | Published: 22 December 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Abdominal aortic aneurysms: advances in endovascular repair)
Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Abstract

Aortic aneurysm is an enlargement of the aorta with a loss of the arterial wall parallelism. There are several possible causes concerning etiology, one of which is the postsurgical presence of a patent distal false lumen. An aortic aneurysm is mainly seen after a surgery for type A aortic dissection and it represents an important late complication. Even more, in some cases the abdominal aortic aneurysm could be complicated by a patent distal false lumen, which makes it challenging for further treatment. We present a case of a 44-year-old male patient with Marfan syndrome and the history of a surgical repair of type A aortic dissection. He was diagnosed with a large abdominal aortic aneurysm and patent distal false lumen. In this report, we describe our technique and the outcome for endovascular fenestration of the persistent intimal flap and the stent-graft implantation for abdominal aortic aneurysm isolation after the surgery for aortic dissection type A. Our technique presents a novelty approach to patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm, complicated with a patent distal false lumen.

Keywords
Patent distal false lumen
Aortic aneurysm
Fenestration
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