From the "bell-bottom" to a migrated "running stent" and then a successful conversion to hypogastric branched...

Preservation of one or both internal iliac arteries (IIA) during endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) reduces the risk of buttock claudication, sexual dysfunction, and pelvic ischemia. Various techniques have been reported for this purpose. We report a case involving the proximal migration of a bell-bottom limb of a previous endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), leading to a type I distal endoleak. On reconstruction, the stent graft resembled a person running and was subsequently named a "running stent"; this had no particular clinical relevance. The patient was successfully treated endovascularly using a branched iliac device. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of the use of an iliac branched device to treat a type 1b endoleak.