PMID: 15359471Sep 14, 2004Paper

Successful covering of a hepatic artery aneurysm with a coronary stent graft

Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
Hidetsugu SakaiAkira kitabatake

Abstract

In a 54-year-old woman with liver cirrhosis who underwent orthotopic liver transplantation, the postoperative course was complicated by aneurysm formation in the hepatic artery. Abdominal ultrasonography showed a daily increase in size of the aneurysm in spite of careful management including strict rest and continuous intravenous infusion of antihypertensive agents. Since the patient's poor systemic status was a major obstruction to operative resection, transcatheter therapy was though more preferable. We evaluated the lesion with intravascular ultrasonography as an adjunct to angiography and dissection with a flap was well visualized. The aneurysm was covered with a commercially available stent-graft, designed for treatment of the coronary artery. This is a rare case in which a Jostent was implanted into the hepatic artery after liver transplantation.

Citations

Feb 6, 2009·Abdominal Imaging·Hiroyuki AburanoOsamu Matsui
Dec 19, 2008·Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology·Miltiadis E Krokidis, Adam A Hatzidakis
Dec 24, 2005·Annals of Surgery·Ian A ZealleyFrancesco M Polignano
Sep 1, 2007·Liver Transplantation : Official Publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society·Georg EliasLuca Cicalese

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