CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

, Volume 27, Issue 3, pp 274–277 | Cite as

Successful Covering of a Hepatic Artery Aneurysm with a Coronary Stent Graft

  • Hidetsugu Sakai
  • Kazushi Urasawa
  • Naotsugu Oyama
  • Akira Kitabatake
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Abstract

In a 54-year-old woman with liver cirrhosis who underwent orthotopic liver transplantation, the postoperative course was complicated by aneurysm formation in the hepatic artery. Abdominal ultrasonography showed a daily increase in the size of the aneurysm in spite of careful management including strict rest and continuous intravenous infusion of antihypertensive agents. Since the patient’s poor systemic status was a major obstruction to operative resection, transcatheter therapy was thought more preferable. We evaluated the lesion with intravascular ultrasonography as an adjunct to angiography and a dissection with a flap was well visualized. The aneurysm was covered with a commercially available stent-graft, designed for treatment of the coronary artery. This is a rare case in which a Jostent was implanted into the hepatic artery after liver transplantation.

Arterial aneurysm Liver transplantation Stent-graft 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Hidetsugu Sakai
    • 1
  • Kazushi Urasawa
    • 1
  • Naotsugu Oyama
    • 1
  • Akira Kitabatake
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Cardiovascular MedicineHokkaido University Graduate School of MedicineJapan

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