Bilateral giant femoropopliteal artery aneurysms: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Popliteal artery aneurysms are the most common peripheral arterial aneurysms, and are frequently bilateral. Acute limb ischemia, rupture and compression phenomena can complicate these aneurysms when the diameter exceeds 2 cm. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an 82-year-old male patient wit...

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Autores principales: Perdikides, Theodossios P, Avgerinos, Efthimios, Christianakis, Efstratios, Fotis, Theofanis, Chronopoulos, Anastasios, Siafakas, Konstantinos X, Pashalidis, Nikolaos, Filippou, Dimitrios K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2365963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18423052
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-114
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: Popliteal artery aneurysms are the most common peripheral arterial aneurysms, and are frequently bilateral. Acute limb ischemia, rupture and compression phenomena can complicate these aneurysms when the diameter exceeds 2 cm. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an 82-year-old male patient with two giant femoropopliteal aneurysms, 10.5 and 8.5 cm diameters, managed in our institution. Both aneurysms were resected and a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) femoropopliteal interposition graft was placed successfully. Management and literature review are discussed. CONCLUSION: We believe this is the first report in the medical literature of bilateral giant femoropopliteal aneurysms.

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