PP48. Chronic Atherosclerotic Occlusion of the Abdominal Aorta: A Contemporary Experience of Open Abdominal Aortic Reconstruction
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Chronic occlusion of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
A 67-year-old woman with peripheral arterial occlusive disease in both lower extremities, secondary to an abdominal aortic aneurysm, developed chronic total occlusion of the abdominal aortic aneurysm during the 3-year follow-up period. She suffered from sudden onset of paraplegia 3 months after palliative axillobifemoral bypass grafting and died of pneumonia. The paraplegia was considered to ha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vascular Surgery
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0741-5214
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.02.078