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Primary intra-aneurysmal surgical repair of a celiomesenteric trunk aneurysm
R Jason VonDerHaar1, Aamir Shah2, Nicholas N Nissen3
1Section of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases
|November 15, 2019
Abstract:
We describe the surgical management of an asymptomatic 3-cm saccular aneurysm originating from a celiomesenteric trunk in a 45-year-old man. Surgical management was influenced by the location of the aneurysm, involving hepatic, splenic, and superior mesenteric arterial branches, by the young age of the patient, which made use of a synthetic graft less ideal, and by the lack of endovascular options.
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