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Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages e25-e27 (March 2010)

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Catheter-delivered Transducer-tipped Ultrasound Thrombolysis of a Chronically Occluded Aortic Stentgraft Limb

L. Danielsa, A.W.J. HoksbergenaCorresponding Author Informationemail address, H.M.E. Coveliersa, R.J. Lelyb, J.H. Nederhoeda, W. Wisselinka

Received 5 November 2009; accepted 22 December 2009. published online 08 February 2010.

Refers to article:
Catheter-delivered Transducer-tipped Ultrasound Thrombolysis of a Chronically Occluded Aortic Stentgraft Limb , 26 February 2010
L. Daniels, A.W.J. Hoksbergen, H.M.E. Coveliers, R.J. Lely, J.H. Nederhoed, W. Wisselink
European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
April 2010 (Vol. 39, Issue 4, Page 521)
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Abstract 

Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) is increasingly used to treat infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm. EVAR is almost exclusively accomplished by using bifurcated, bi-iliac stentgrafts. Nevertheless, it is accompanied with a considerable incidence of stentgraft limb occlusion. In case of acute occlusion endovascular revascularization options are plentiful, but for chronically occluded stentgraft limbs such consensus is lacking. Catheter-delivered transducer-tipped ultrasound (US) thrombolysis is a new technique specifically coined for the treatment of (sub)acute peripheral arterial occlusions and deep venous thrombosis. We describe a unique case of successful treatment of a chronically occluded stentgraft limb after EVAR with catheter-delivered transducer-tipped US thrombolysis.

a Department of Surgery, VU University Medical Centre, PO Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

b Department of Radiology, VU University Medical Centre, PO Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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PII: S1533-3167(10)00002-6

doi:10.1016/j.ejvsextra.2009.12.001

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