Something is not right - Image 2

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A septuagenarian patient with a history of smoking, hypertension, chronic non-dialysis renal failure who presented an 8.0 cm thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm involving the iliac arteries...

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Something is not right

Something is not right

What is really happening to this patient? And which of the following treatments do you think has been proposed?
  1. Previously treated abdominal aortic aneurysm with bifurcated endoprosthesis implanted. The patient suffered closed abdominal trauma and prosthesis disconnections occurred. Abdominal aneurysm rupture is imminent. Open surgery is indicated because it is exceedingly difficult to remake connections, the main body and extensions being totally misaligned.
  2. The patient had normal abdominal aorta and thoracic and iliacs arteries aneurysms treated with modular prosthesis, causing a peculiar image. No treatment is needed.
  3. There was a thoracoabdominal aneurysm treated with multilayer prosthesis and because of aorta tortuosity a disconnection occurred. An approach with multiple vascular accesses in addition to the use of a directable sheath and varal technique and other multilayer prosthesis should be implanted.
Authors

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Palmas Medical Center; AKC diagnostico; ITPAC - Tocantins, Brazil

Santo Antonio Hospital - Porto, Portugal

Unimed Nova Friburgo - Brazil

Unimed Nova Friburgo - Brazil

Unimed Nova Friburgo - Brazil

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