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A Case of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Associated with Horseshoe Kidney
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（Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mie Heart Center, Mie, Japan）
| Yoshiyuki Nishimura |
Toshiharu Ishii |
Yasuhide Ookawa |
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We describe the case of an 80-year-old man who underwent surgical repair for abdominal aortic aneurysm with horseshoe kidney.
We performed open surgery by a transperitoneal approach via a standard median laparotomy, and noted that the right accessory renal artery had 1 branch and the left accessory renal artery had 2.
We safely dissected these arteries using a Harmonic scalpel.
The aneurysm was successfully replaced using a Dacron straight graft, and all renal arteries were preserved.
Renal infarction and renal dysfunction did not occur during the uneventful postoperative course.
Jpn. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 40:155-158（2011）
Keywords：horseshoe kidney, abdominal aortic aneurysm, harmonic scalpel
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