Caputo Francis J, Jim Jeffrey, Sanchez Luis A
Section of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Vasc Endovascular Surg. 2011 Aug;45(6):553-6. doi: 10.1177/1538574411410326. Epub 2011 Jun 5.
An 86-year-old female was incidentally discovered with an asymptomatic 5.3 cm infrarenal aortic aneurysm. Preoperative imaging demonstrated the aortic neck to have severe suprarenal and infrarenal angulation. The patient was deemed unfit for open aortic repair due to multiple medical comorbidities. Endovascular treatment was performed with a modified Zenith bifurcated graft using a Zenith TX2 endograft as a proximal aortic cuff. There were no perioperative complications, and postoperative imaging demonstrated aneurysm exclusion with no migration or major endoleaks. The patient died of unrelated causes at 21 months. The use of a thoracic endograft as a proximal cuff is an alternative technique in the endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms with a severely angulated neck.
