Open Abdominal Aortic Repair to Treat Perigraft Seroma after Endovascular Aortic Repair with Endologix AFX2 Endograft

Masamichi Ozawa; Masaki Hamamoto; Taira Kobayashi

doi:10.3400/avd.cr.21-00104

Abstract

A 75-year-old man with an abdominal aortic aneurysm underwent endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) using an AFX2 endograft with no endoleaks. Nevertheless, the aneurysmal sac increased by 8 mm at 24 months after EVAR despite no detectable endoleaks. Open surgical treatment was performed because of the risk of rupture. Intraoperative findings of much viscous cloudy fluid with no blood flow in the sac suggested that perigraft seroma resulted in sac enlargement. The endografts were replaced by a Dacron graft. Perigraft seroma should be considered as a cause of sac growth after EVAR with AFX2 when there are no detectable endoleaks.

Content from these authors

© 2021 The Editorial Committee of Annals of Vascular Diseases. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the credit of the original work, a link to the license, and indication of any change are properly given, and the original work is not used for commercial purposes. Remixed or transformed contributions must be distributed under the same license as the original.

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons [Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International] license.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Favorites & Alerts

Corresponding author

Register with J-STAGE for free!