Endovascular repair of a thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm using ascending aorta as an access route in Leriche syndrome: a case report

Özgür Gürsu; Feyyaz Baltacıoğlu; Koray Ak; Sinan Arsan; Maher Aljodi; Emre Elçi; Gözde Kırca; Selim İsbir

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2013.6912

Özgür Gürsu¹, Feyyaz Baltacıoğlu², Koray Ak¹, Sinan Arsan¹, Maher Aljodi¹, Emre Elçi¹, Gözde Kırca¹, Selim İsbir¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty of Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey
²Department of Radiology, Medical Faculty of Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2013.6912

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In this article, we present a successful thoracic endovascular repair in a 62-year-old male case with totally occluded infrarenal aorta. We believe that the need of using ascending aorta as an access route in endovascular repair is extremly rare.

Keywords : Aneurysm; endovascular procedures/stents; peripheral vascular disease

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