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İlker İnce1, İsa Civelek1, Ceylan Gürcan1
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Health Sciences Türkiye, Ankara Etlik City Hospital, Ankara, Türkiye.
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Endovascular repair has become a standardized approach for aortic diseases, but visceral branch involvement presents major technical challenges. Fenestrated repair allows aneurysm exclusion while maintaining organ perfusion, though custom-made devices are costly and often unavailable in urgent settings. We report the first physician-modified four-fenestration endograft (PMEG) procedure performed in Türkiye for a contained rupture of the visceral aorta. All four visceral branches were successfully revascularized with full exclusion of the aneurysm. The patient had an uneventful recovery, and one-month control computed tomography angiography confirmed complete graft integrity and patency of all visceral branches.
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