A 70 year-old male sustained an AAD 8 years previously and was being monitored for an enlarging abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). A computed tomography (CT) scan confirmed an 8cm diameter AAA extending 9cm above the origin of the coeliac axis (CA). At the level of renal arteries (RAs) there was a dissection flap pressurising the false lumen. Both the RAs arose from the true lumen as did the supe...

Introduction. We are presenting a case report of an infected modular abdominal stent graft. Case Presentation. A 67-year-old male patient three years after Cook's modular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) graft implantation for juxtarenal AAA with an implantation of a stent extension into the right common iliac artery for type Ib endoleak. The patient was admitted into our center in severe condit...

PURPOSE Many studies have shown that aortouniiliac (AUI) devices have comparable outcome in high risk patients as the treatment with bifurcated devices. The purpose of this article is to review the relevant literature and discuss the outcomes. METHODS A systematic search from 1991 until 2010 was performed on PubMed and Medline databases for studies evaluating the role of AUI devices accompani...

We report a case of infected iliac artery aneurysm concomitant with liver abscesses caused by Fusobacterium nucleatum. A 58-year-old man developed an aneurysm of the right common iliac artery and liver abscesses. The aneurysm was resected and a femoro-femoral crossover bypass with a knitted Dacron graft was performed for impending rupture. Anaerobic cultures obtained from blood and intramural t...

The accuracy and usefulness of computed flow data in an artery is dependent on the initial geometry, which is in turn dependent on image quality. Due to the resolution of the images, smaller branching arteries are often not captured with computed tomography (CT), and thus neglected in flow simulations. Here, we used a high-quality CT dataset of an isolated common iliac aneurysm, where multiple ...

Infrarenal abdominal aortic and descending thoracic aneurysms are the most frequently coexisting aortic aneurysms and pose problems deciding priority of treatment, timing of interventions, and minimizing the risk of paraplegia. An 81-year-old man presented with a 5.8-cm descending thoracic and a 5.0-mm infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (A, note two renal arteries on the right). The thoracic ...