Recurrent aneursyms following endovascular stent-grafting repair in vascular Behçet's disease

Aytaç Gülcü; Naciye Sinem Gezer; Erdem Erinç Silistreli

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.9279

Aytaç Gülcü¹, Naciye Sinem Gezer¹, Erdem Erinç Silistreli²

Medical Faculty of Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey
¹Departments of Radiology, Medical Faculty of Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey
²Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty of Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.9279

Endovascular stent-graft treatment is one of the treatment modalities in prevention of recurrent aneurysms at the anastomosis site which are common following surgical repair of aneurysms in vascular Behçet’s disease. Pseudoaneurysms may also develop at the distal and proximal landing zones of the stent-graft. In this article, we report a 38-year-old male case of vascular Behçet’s disease in whom ineffective immunosuppression resulted in the development of recurrent pseudoaneurysms at the proximal and distal ends of the stent graft and all around it. Although stent graft placement may be considered as an alternative treatment to surgery in patients with vascular Behçet’s disease, a relatively low, but ongoing risk of recurrent pseudoaneurysm still remains.

Keywords : Aortic pseudoaneurysm; endovascular stent-grafting repair; vascular Behçet’s disease

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