A Case of Expansion of a Right Internal Iliac Artery Aneurysm after an Exclusion Operation

(Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hoshigaura Hospital, Kushiro, Japan)

Toshio Baba Hideyuki Harada Kazuhiro Takahashi
This is a case report of an expansion of the right internal iliac artery aneurysm after an exclusion operation. A 72-year-old man, had undergone aneurysmectomy and graft replacement of a right external iliac artery aneurysm and a ruptured left iliac artery aneurysm, and exclusion of a right internal iliac artery aneurysm in1995. Computed tomography showed an expansion of the right internal iliac artery aneurysm in 2003. We performed graft replacement and bypassing to the right external iliac artery. The patient had a satisfactory postoperative course.
@Jpn. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 36: 150-152 (2007)