[Inflammatory aortic aneurysm after vascular-prosthetic treatment. Morphological findings after years of incorporation].

Until now the causal and formal pathogenesis of the inflammatory aortic aneurysm is poorly known. This report shows the pathological- anatomical findings of surgical and autoptical preparations, on the one hand 78 months and on the other hand 82 months, after vascular-prosthetical treatment of inflammatory aneurysms in the abdominal and thoracal part of the aorta. By morphological studies it was possible to reveal, the over years existing disease, the typical picture of inflammatory aneurysm, focal destruction of the genuine aortic wall and partial substitution by inflammatory-fibrous, less qualitative granulation tissue.

[Stent treatment of a false postoperative carotid aneurysm].

A 64-year old man developed an aneurysm at the distal anastomosis of a carotido-carotid PTFE-interposition which was treated by placement of a stent. Angiographic and computertomographic follow-up examinations after 9 months demonstrated the complete disappearance of the aneurysm after implantation of a self-expanding uncovered stent (Wallstent).

[Coarctation of the descending aorta. A rare form of connatal aortic stenosis].

A clinical diagnosis of a coarctation of the aorta was made in a 17-year-old female hypertensive patient. Angiography revealed an atypical stenosis of the descending aorta which was surgically corrected. The causes of aortic stenoses are discussed.