• Users Online: 354
  • Print this page
  • Email this page
CASE REPORT
Year : 2018  |  Volume : 1  |  Issue : 2  |  Page : 130-133

Endovascular repair of traumatic subclavian artery pseudoaneurysm: a case report and review of the literature


Department of Vascular Surgery, Mataria Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt

Correspondence Address:
Mohamad M Gouda
Department of Vascular Surgery, Mataria Teaching Hospital, Cairo
Egypt
Login to access the Email id

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/JMISR.JMISR_34_18

Rights and Permissions

Traumatic subclavian artery injury resulting in pseudoaneurysm formation is relatively uncommon. With the increasing percutaneous arterial interventions utilization worldwide, the number of pseudoaneurysm formation has increased owing to iatrogenic arterial injury. After trauma, injury of subclavian artery early appears, and many complications such as life-threatening bleeding, the creation of pseudoaneurysm, and brachial plexus compression may be caused by the arterial rupture. The presence of large hematoma and pulsatile palpable mass in the supraclavicular region should raise the suspicion of severe vascular injury. Surgical thoracotomy and direct arterial repair traditionally treated subclavian artery pseudoaneurysms. However, significant morbidity is usually associated with surgical repair. In recent years, endovascular stent grafting has become an attractive intervention with less invasiveness and morbidity for these injuries. We have a case report of pseudoaneurysm following traumatic right subclavian artery owing to penetrating neck trauma caused by bullet injury, which was treated successfully by endovascular stent grafting, providing a complete review of the literature.


[FULL TEXT] [PDF]*
Print this article     Email this article
 Next article
 Previous article
 Table of Contents

 Similar in PUBMED
   Search Pubmed for
   Search in Google Scholar for
 Related articles
 Citation Manager
 Access Statistics
 Reader Comments
 Email Alert *
 Add to My List *
 * Requires registration (Free)
 

 Article Access Statistics
    Viewed2711    
    Printed160    
    Emailed1    
    PDF Downloaded192    
    Comments [Add]    
    Cited by others 1    

Recommend this journal