Challenging Endovascular Treatment of Coral Reef Aorta and a Literature Review.

Coral reef aorta is a rare type of atherosclerotic disease that causes severe calcification in the abdominal aorta. We present a case of coral reef aorta with hemodynamically significant symptomatic aortic stenosis causing intermittent claudication and bilateral cyanosis of the toes. Despite the challenging anatomy for endovascular treatment, the patient underwent successful transfemoral endovascular stent-graft placement.

Combined AFX2 with thoracic stent graft: A different endovascular approach of an abdominal aorta aneurysm.

The AFX2 endovascular repair system is a unibody, bifurcated stent graft that can be used in an abdominal aortic aneurysm associated with anatomical challenges, especially if it is combined with different aortic cuffs. The use of an AFX2 main body combined with a thoracic stent graft as a proximal aortic cuff was selected to treat a 77-year-old male patient with abdominal aortic aneurysm. The AFX2 endograft combined with a proximal thoracic aortic cuff plays a safe and effective role in treating complex infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm that may otherwise be technically more challenging with the open technique and inaccessible with the traditional endovascular technique.

Comparison of MANTA vs ProGlide Vascular Closure Device and 30-Day Outcomes in Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation.

Background: Vascular complications (VCs) after transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) have an increased mortality risk, and vascular closure device (VCD) use is mandatory. The percutaneous MANTA VCD (Teleflex) is a novel collagen-based technology for closure of large-bore arteriotomies. We compared the MANTA VCD with the suture-based ProGlide VCD (Abbott Vascular).

Ruptured true aneurysm of the superficial femoral artery leading to Behçet disease diagnosis.

Femoral artery aneurysms are rare, and aneurysms of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) are even rarer, with ruptured true aneurysms of the SFA the rarest. In the present report, we have described the case of a young patient whose SFA had clinical findings suggestive of an aneurysm rupture, which resulted in the diagnosis of Behçet disease, in accordance with the clinical features of the disease. The patient underwent standard treatment, with aneurysmectomy and interposition of a synthetic graft.

Open surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm and horseshoe kidney: A strange relationship.

Introduction And Importance: The horseshoe kidney (HK) is the most common fusion defect of the kidneys. Τhe simultaneous presence of HK and abdominal aortic aneurysm (ΑΑΑ) is rare and comprises a technical challenge for the vascular surgeon due to variation of renal arteries and the renal isthmus overlying the AAA sac.

Case Presentation: We present the first case in Nicosia General Hospital of Cyprus of an infrarenal AAA with a HK (Crawford Type I), which was successfully treated using an open surgical approach.