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Covered Stent Implantation for Treatment of Iliac Vein Rupture During Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion
Quentin Landolff1, Frederic Sebag1, Alessandro Costanzo2
1Department of Cardiology, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France.
JACC. Case Reports
|July 28, 2021
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An 82-year-old woman who experienced an iatrogenic external iliac vein perforation during a left atrial appendage occlusion procedure was successfully treated by endovascular graft implantation. We report the short- and long-term outcomes of the procedure. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.).
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