Embolization with amplatzer vascular plug for a pseudoaneurysm resulting from surgical repair of recurrent aortic coarctation.

Abstract

Summary We are reporting a case of a 34-year-old patient with history of surgical repair of aortic coarctation at the age of 7 and hybrid repair at the age of 32. He is presented with chest pain and the CT scan showed an endoleak with restoring of aortic pseudoaneurysm by a 9 mm abnormal vessel. We performed embolization of this channel by deploying an Amplatzer vascular plug. The angiographic result was satisfactory and patient became asymptomatic. Six months later, CT scan showed no increase in pseudoaneurysm diameter. Amplatzer Vascular Plug can be safely used in the treatment of recurrent aortic coarctation.