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Endovascular repair of a profunda femoris artery aneurysm
Giovanni Brancaccio1, Giovanni M Celoria, Teseo Stefanini
1Vascular Surgery Unit, S. Andrea Hospital, La Spezia, Italy.
Abstract:
Profunda femoris artery (PFA) aneurysms are rare and they are usually treated with open surgery. We report the case of an 87-year-old patient who during the preoperative work-up for an abdominal aortic aneurysm was found to have a 4.2-cm aneurysm of the right PFA. A percutaneous transcatheter coil embolization was successfully performed using a contralateral retrograde approach. To date, only three patients, including the present case, have been treated with transcatheter coil embolization for a PFA aneurysm. In the absence of concomitant superficial femoral artery disease, embolization of aneurysms of the profunda femoris seems to be a safe and minimally invasive alternative to open repair in selected patients.
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