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Endovascular management of spontaneous axillary artery aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature

INTRODUCTION: Spontaneous atraumatic true axillary artery aneurysm is a relatively unusual disorder. Although most cases are asymptomatic, complications of axillary artery aneurysms may result in acute vascular insufficiency and neurological deficits. Prompt treatment, therefore, should be employed...

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Autores principales: He, Changsheng, Wu, Xingjiang, Cao, Jianmin, Fan, Xinxin, Liu, Kai, Liu, Baochen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23714201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-7-140
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author He, Changsheng
Wu, Xingjiang
Cao, Jianmin
Fan, Xinxin
Liu, Kai
Liu, Baochen
author_facet He, Changsheng
Wu, Xingjiang
Cao, Jianmin
Fan, Xinxin
Liu, Kai
Liu, Baochen
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description INTRODUCTION: Spontaneous atraumatic true axillary artery aneurysm is a relatively unusual disorder. Although most cases are asymptomatic, complications of axillary artery aneurysms may result in acute vascular insufficiency and neurological deficits. Prompt treatment, therefore, should be employed in the management of this condition. To date, the standard treatment for peripheral aneurysms is still surgical resection with end-to-end anastomosis. However, aneurysmectomy and interposition grafting with autologous or artificial vessels are more invasive and time-consuming. The ideal treatment for axillary artery aneurysm should be relatively noninvasive, safe and free of significant complications, cost-effective, cosmetically acceptable, and incur less absence from usual daily activities. Endovascular stent grafts have also been successfully used to treat these aneurysms. Management of select aneurysms using stent grafts has become more prevalent with the developing endoluminal technology. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a spontaneous atraumatic axillary artery aneurysm where the patient was a 48-year-old ethnic Han Chinese woman with a gradually enlarging left axillary pulsatile mass. She was treated with endovascular stent grafts. The postoperative course of the patient was uneventful during the six-month follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: We show that there are significant early advantages with the endovascular management technique versus the conventional operation in the management of axillary artery aneurysm.
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spelling pubmed-36738132013-06-06 Endovascular management of spontaneous axillary artery aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature He, Changsheng Wu, Xingjiang Cao, Jianmin Fan, Xinxin Liu, Kai Liu, Baochen J Med Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Spontaneous atraumatic true axillary artery aneurysm is a relatively unusual disorder. Although most cases are asymptomatic, complications of axillary artery aneurysms may result in acute vascular insufficiency and neurological deficits. Prompt treatment, therefore, should be employed in the management of this condition. To date, the standard treatment for peripheral aneurysms is still surgical resection with end-to-end anastomosis. However, aneurysmectomy and interposition grafting with autologous or artificial vessels are more invasive and time-consuming. The ideal treatment for axillary artery aneurysm should be relatively noninvasive, safe and free of significant complications, cost-effective, cosmetically acceptable, and incur less absence from usual daily activities. Endovascular stent grafts have also been successfully used to treat these aneurysms. Management of select aneurysms using stent grafts has become more prevalent with the developing endoluminal technology. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a spontaneous atraumatic axillary artery aneurysm where the patient was a 48-year-old ethnic Han Chinese woman with a gradually enlarging left axillary pulsatile mass. She was treated with endovascular stent grafts. The postoperative course of the patient was uneventful during the six-month follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: We show that there are significant early advantages with the endovascular management technique versus the conventional operation in the management of axillary artery aneurysm. BioMed Central 2013-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3673813/ /pubmed/23714201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-7-140 Text en Copyright © 2013 He et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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He, Changsheng
Wu, Xingjiang
Cao, Jianmin
Fan, Xinxin
Liu, Kai
Liu, Baochen
Endovascular management of spontaneous axillary artery aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature
title Endovascular management of spontaneous axillary artery aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Endovascular management of spontaneous axillary artery aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Endovascular management of spontaneous axillary artery aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Endovascular management of spontaneous axillary artery aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Endovascular management of spontaneous axillary artery aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort endovascular management of spontaneous axillary artery aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23714201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-7-140
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