Abstract
A 71-year-old patient was referred to our department for postoperative evaluation of an extra-anatomic aortobi-femoral bypass graft (Dacron) from the distal thoracic aorta to both common femoral arteries. Eight days earlier, the patient had undergone surgical resection of an anastomotic aneurysm, with interposition of a short new graft segment at the right distal anastomosis of the bypass graft. The extra-anatomic aortobifemoral bypass had been implanted 9 years previously due to a severe infection of an infrarenal aortic bifurcation prosthesis. At that time, the infected prosthesis was removed, with subsequent ligation of the infrarenal abdominal aorta. Multidetector row spiral …
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