CASE REPORTS  VASCULAR PAPERS 

The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2000 June;41(3):475-8

Copyright © 2009 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

language: English

Successful resection of superior mesenteric artery aneurysm. A case report and review of the literature

Komori K., Mori E., Yamaoka T., Ohta S., Takeuchi K., Matsumoto T., Kume M., Sugimachi K.

From The Second Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Superior mes­en­ter­ic ­artery aneu­rysms are ­rare, com­pris­ing ­only 8% of all vis­cer­al ­artery aneu­rysms. Aneurysms at the ­site are ­very sus­cep­ti­ble to rup­ture, irre­spec­tive of ­size and may be dif­fi­cult to man­age ­even in the ­case of elec­tive sur­gery. In the ­absence of seri­ous com­pli­cat­ing fac­tors, the treat­ment of ­choice is exci­sion of the aneu­rysm and recon­struc­tion of the ­artery, if nec­es­sary, to main­tain paten­cy. We ­report the suc­cess­ful resec­tion of an aneu­rysm and the sub­se­quent recon­struc­tion of the super­i­or mes­en­ter­ic ­artery ­which was direct­ly anas­to­mosed to the aor­ta ­after resec­tion of an aneu­rysm.