EJVES Extra
Volume 18, Issue 4 , Pages 51-52, October 2009

Delayed Diagnosis of a Late Vascular Complication after Total Hip Replacement

  • M. Vetrhus

      Affiliations

    • Department of Vascular Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Stavanger University Hospital, Department of Vascular Surgery, P.O. Box 8100, 4068 Stavanger, Norway. Tel.: +47 93429337.
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  • T.M. Nybø

      Affiliations

    • Department of Vascular Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
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  • P.J. Stokkeland

      Affiliations

    • Department of Interventional Radiology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
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  • S. Young

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Received 17 February 2009; accepted 14 July 2009. published online 20 August 2009.

Abstract 

We present a patient that was admitted with acute distal embolization in the popliteal and infragenicular arteries one year after total hip replacement. The embolization was caused by a pseudoaneurysm formed after a piece of bone cement had eroded the arterial wall. CT angiography failed to diagnose the pseudoaneurysm and it was eventually diagnosed intraoperatively. To our knowledge this is only the second report on this complication.

Keywords: Bone cement, Pseudoaneurysm, Embolization, Total hip replacement, Vascular complication

 

PII: S1533-3167(09)00027-2

doi:10.1016/j.ejvsextra.2009.07.003

Refers to article:

  • Delayed Diagnosis of a Late Vascular Complication after Total Hip Replacement , 28 August 2009

    M. Vetrhus, T.M. Nybø, P.J. Stokkeland, S. Young
    European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery November 2009 (Vol. 38, Issue 5, Page 656)

EJVES Extra
Volume 18, Issue 4 , Pages 51-52, October 2009

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