Popliteal Artery Aneurysm Treated With Endovascular Technique and New Device: Case Report and Literature Review - Abstract
In this paper, we aimed to report an alternative endovascular treatment in a patient with an isolated popliteal artery aneurysm. A 69 year-old male
patient, with hypertension and post-operative of gastric bypass surgery for obesity, was admitted with right limb pain, mainly in the calf, associated with
a weakness and difficulty walking. The patient was submitted to a duplex ultrasound, that suggested a popliteal artery aneurysm, with 3.8 cm diameter,
confirmed with CT angiogram. Furthermore, the patient had no proper saphenous vein diameter for a open surgery bypass evaluated by a Doppler ultrasound.
Then, the patient was scheduled to undergo endovascular treatment of the popliteal artery aneurysm with two covered self-expandable 8 x 100 and 10 x 75
Merit Wrapsody?. The patient was discharged from the hospital two days after the surgery with no complications, palpable pedal pulses taking Rivaroxaban
20mg and Clopidogrel 75mg daily. At year follow-up, the patient was asymptomatic and duplex showed patent stent without evidence of endoleak.