Case Reports
An Experience of Emergent Endovascular Treatment for Ruptured Popliteal Aneurysm Using a Peripheral Stent-graft (Gore Viabahn)
2020 Volume 29 Issue 2 Pages 109-111
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2020 Volume 29 Issue 2 Pages 109-111
An 81-year-old woman with senile dementia was transferred to our hospital due to the right popliteal aneurysm rupture. The patient was hemodyanamically stable. However, the standard operation, consisted of the aneurysmoraphy and a bypass surgery, seemed a highly invasive treatment with a long duration of hospital stay. The patient was treated with an endovascular treatment. Gore Viabahn stent grafts (W. L. Gore and Associates, Flagstaff, AZ) were deployed from the superficial femoral to the below-the-knee popliteal artery. The aneurysm was completely thrombosed and started to decrease in volume. The stent-grafts remain patent for 24 months after the procedure.
