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Endovascular repair of inflammatory abdominal aneurysm: a retrospective analysis of CT follow-up.

Hechelhammer L, Wildermuth S, Lachat ML, Pfammatter T

Institute of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland.

Retrospective radiologic and clinical midterm follow-up is reported for 10 patients with inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm (IAAA) after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR). At a mean follow-up of 33 months, regression of the thickness of the perianeurysmal fibrosis (PAF) and decrease of aneurysmal sac diameter was observed in nine patients. Four EVAR-associated complications were observed: periinterventional dissection of femoral artery (n = 1), blue toe syndrome (n = 1), and stent-graft disconnection (n = 2). EVAR is the less invasive method of aneurysm exclusion in patients with IAAA with a comparable evolution of the PAF as reported after open repair.

Published 5 May 2005 in J Vasc Interv Radiol, 16(5): 737-41.
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