| Literature DB >> 23555448 |
Masahiro Ryugo1, Takumi Yasugi, Mitsugi Nagashima, Hironori Izutani, Toru Okamura, Fumiaki Shikata, Masashi Kawamura, Kanji Kawachi.
Abstract
An 82-year-old man was admitted to our institution with a painful pulsating mass in the left groin. He had undergone bypass surgery with a bifurcated Cooley double velour knitted Dacron graft to treat aorto-iliac occlusive disease 21 years previously. Computed tomography demonstrated a 35-mm pseudoaneurysm near the distal anastomosis site of the graft. Opening the aneurysm revealed that the graft was disrupted along the guideline. We resected the aneurysm and interposed an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) graft. Vascular surgeons should consider that grafts can fail in patients with long-term prosthetic grafts.Entities:
Keywords: degradation; endovascular aortic repair; polyester vascular prostheses
Year: 2011 PMID: 23555448 PMCID: PMC3595830 DOI: 10.3400/avd.cr.10.00018
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann Vasc Dis ISSN: 1881-641X