Endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with horseshoe kidney

Ignatyev I.M., Volodyukhin M.Yu., Zanochkin A.V., Rafikov A.Yu., Khairullin R.N.

Interregional Clinical Diagnostic Centre, Course of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kazan State Medical University, Kazan, Russia

Presented herein is a case report concerning successful endovascular treatment of a patient with an infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm combined with a horseshoe kidney. The diagnosis was verified by multispiral computed tomography.

The patient underwent of endovascular repair of the abdominal aorta with a stent-graft AORFIX (Lombard Medical). The postoperative period turned out uneventful, with no complications.

The patient was examined 3 years after the intervention. The findings of control check-up computed tomography showed no signs of either stent graft dislocation or endoleak.

KEY WORDS: abdominal aortic aneurysm, horseshoe kidney, endovascular prosthetic repair, stent graft, remote result.

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