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Rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm with tear of inferior vena cava in a patient with prior endograft.

J Vasc Surg

April 2002

Section of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, St Joseph Hospital of Macomb, Clinton Township, Michigan, USA.

Article Synopsis
  • The case involves a 63-year-old man who experienced a contained rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm and an inferior vena cava tear 15 months after receiving an Aneurx endograft.
  • The rupture was likely due to poor fixation of the graft and separation of its components, leading to penetration into the inferior vena cava.
  • Successful repairs included removing the endograft and reconstructing the blood vessels with an aortobiiliac graft, along with repairing the inferior vena cava injury.
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