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International Angiology 2001 September;20(3):241-3

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lingua: Inglese

Thromboendarterectomy of the right common iliac artery in a patient with Marfan’s syndrome and restoration with a new technique

Safioleas M. C., Kakisis D., Evangelidakis E. L., Vericocos C. M., Manti C. P.

From the 2nd Department of Propedeutic Surgery, Athens University Medical School Laiko General Hospital, Athens * Department of Hematology, Thriasion Hospital, Athens, Greece

Marfan’s syn­drome is a rare hered­i­tary dis­ease of con­nec­tive tis­sue, the sur­gi­cal inter­est of which is in its pro­pen­sity to the devel­op­ment of arte­ri­al aneu­rysms. We ­describe the case of a 40-year-old male who was admit­ted to our hos­pi­tal ­because of throm­bo­sis of the right com­mon iliac ­artery and who was treat­ed with a new tech­nique: throm­boen­dar­te­rec­to­my of the right com­mon iliac ­artery and cov­er­ing of the ­artery with a syn­thet­ic graft, in order to avoid the risk of devel­op­ing an aneu­rysm of the endar­te­rec­tom­ised iliac ­artery. This is a new tech­nique, here ­described for the first time in the inter­na­tion­al lit­er­a­ture.