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Repair of recurrent visceral aortic patch aneurysm after thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair with a branched endovascular stent graft.

Adam DJ, Berce M, Hartley DE, Robinson DA, Anderson JL

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK. Donald.Adam@heartofengland.nhs.uk

Aneurysmal degeneration of the visceral aortic patch is an uncommon late complication of surgical replacement of the thoracoabdominal aorta. We report on a 70-year-old woman who had undergone previous open thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair and subsequent revision surgery for a visceral aortic patch aneurysm. The patient presented with a recurrent asymptomatic 60-mm-diameter visceral aortic patch aneurysm involving the celiac axis and superior mesenteric artery. The lesion was successfully treated with a custom-designed Zenith branched endovascular stent graft. The patient remains well at 12 months.

Published 9 January 2007 in J Vasc Surg, 45(1): 183-5.
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