Interventional Radiology - Case Report 2016

A wire-loop technique for implantation of an iliac branched device in a patient with previous surgery for a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm

10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.5727-12.1

  • Umberto Marcello Bracale
  • Donatella Narese
  • Gaetano Vitale
  • Franco Maglione
  • Pietro Orlando Conti
  • Guido Bajardi

Received Date: 08.01.2012 Accepted Date: 18.04.2012 Diagn Interv Radiol 2013;19(1):73-75

We described a modi…ed technique for implanting a bridging stent-graft into an iliac branched device. A 79-year-old male who had received aortobiiliac synthetic graft surgery for a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm six months earlier was admitted to our unit for treatment of a left common iliac aneurysm involving the origin of the hypogastric artery. A standard technique was unsuccessful at implanting the bridging stent-graft, and therefore a wire-loop guidewire over the graft bifurcation was used to stabilize the contralateral sheaths and to complete the implantation.