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Comlan Mawuko Blitti1, Camil-Cassien Bamde1, Abdulrahman Alblowi1
1Department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, Dijon University Hospital, Dijon, France.
Background:
To describe a bailout technique used to manage the left stump of a bifurcated endograft that was stuck above a narrowed distal aortic neck.
Methods:
An 80-year-old man with a suprarenal aneurysm was treated with a custom-made 4-vessel fenestration endograft. During the procedure, the left stump of the distal bifurcated graft module was chased out of a narrow distal aortic neck and became stuck horizontally at the bottom of the aortic aneurysmal sac. Through a femoral to left subclavian artery through-and-through percutaneous access, a balloon-anchoring technique was successfully used to return the endograft stump into the narrowed aortic neck and exclude the aneurysm.
Conclusions:
The combined technique of a through-and-through and anchoring balloon was found to be suitable for introducing an endograft limb into a narrow distal aortic neck.
