tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Bilateral giant femoropopliteal artery aneurysms: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Bilateral giant femoropopliteal artery aneurysms: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Open Access Bilateral giant femoropopliteal artery aneurysms a case report Theodossios P Perdikides Efthimios Avgerinos Efstratios Christianakis Theofanis Fotis Anastasios Chronopoulos Konstantinos X Siafakas Nikolaos Pashalidis and Dimitrios K Filippou Address Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery Hellenic Airforce Hospital GR-11146 Galatsi Athens Greece Email Theodossios P Perdikides - perdik@ Efthimios Avgerinos - surgmaike@ Efstratios Christianakis - christaina@ Theofanis Fotis - Thfot@ Anastasios Chronopoulos - anaschron@ Konstantinos X Siafakas - siafakon@ Nikolaos Pashalidis - webdocgr@ Dimitrios K Filippou - d_filippou@ Corresponding author Published 20 April 2008 Received 20 June 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 114 doi 1752-1947-2-114 Accepted 20 April 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 1 14 2008 Perdikides et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract 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 and 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 .