EJVES Extra
Volume 12, Issue 5 , Pages 68-70, November 2006

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy Caused by Endoleak Type I: Successful Treatment by Endovascular Stent-graft Extension

  • H.H. Keo

      Affiliations

    • Division of Angiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
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  • N. Diehm

      Affiliations

    • Division of Angiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
    • ,
  • I. Baumgartner

      Affiliations

    • Division of Angiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
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  • J. Schmidli

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
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  • D.-D. Do

      Affiliations

    • Division of Angiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. D.-D. Do, MD, Professor and Head of Interventional Angiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland.

Accepted 5 September 2006.

Introduction

We present a case with acute DIC probably caused by a type I endoleak after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR).

Case report

An 84-year-old male underwent elective EVAR of a 7cm sized infrarenal aortic aneurysm and developed five months later an acute DIC associated with an endoleak type I. After successful endovascular stent-graft extension the DIC resolved.

Discussion

Endoleak type I is not described to be related to DIC, however as the endovascular stent-graft extension did abolish both, endoleak and the DIC in our case. We therefore suggest that a type I endoleak can cause acute DIC.

Keywords: Abdominal aortic aneurysm, Endoleak type I, DIC

 

PII: S1533-3167(06)00077-X

doi:10.1016/j.ejvsextra.2006.09.003

Refers to article:

  • Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy Caused by Endoleak Type I: Successful Treatment by Endovascular Stent-graft Extension , 02 November 2006

    H.H. Keo, N. Diehm, I. Baumgartner, J. Schmidli, D.-D. Do
    European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery January 2007 (Vol. 33, Issue 1, Page 131)

EJVES Extra
Volume 12, Issue 5 , Pages 68-70, November 2006

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