[Endoanchor implantation for treatment of endoleak].

The authors describe a clinical case of correction of a type 1A endoleak after EVAR using endo-anchors. An 85-year old female was referred due to an abdominal aortic aneurysm. The patient´s previous medical history included hypertension, dyslipidemia, renal insufficiency and multiple abdominal surgeries (appendicectomy, classic cholecystectomy and hysterectomy).

Neointimal Hyperplasia.

Neointimal hyperplasia is a physiologic healing response to injury to the blood vessel wall, involving all the three arterial layers and it occurs in the presence of internal (endovascular) or external (surgical) injury. It is a highly complex process involving several tissues (perivascular, vessel wall, and blood) and numerous cell lineages with multiple molecular signaling networks. So, there is a number of possible targets for inhibition of this process.