Endovascular embolization of visceral artery aneurysm: a retrospective study

Abstract

To assess the safety and efficacy of endovascular embolization techniques, we compared the short- to medium-term prognosis of coil embolization for symptomatic visceral aneurysms (SVAA) and asymptomatic visceral aneurysms (ASVAA) to identify risk factors associated with 30-day mortality. Explore the symptom profile and intrinsic associations of SVAA. A retrospective study of 66 consecutive patients at two tertiary care hospitals from 2010 to 2020 compared the short- to mid-term outcomes of 22 symptomatic VAAs and 44 asymptomatic VAAs treated with coil embolization. Univariate and log-rank tests were used to analyze the prognostic impact of SVAA and ASVAA. SVAA group had significantly higher 30-day mortality than ASVAA group (2(9.1%) vs 0, P = 0.042), both patients who died had symptomatic pseudoaneurysms. Perioperative complications such as end-organ ischemia (P = 0.293) and reintervention (P = 1) were similar in both groups. No difference in event-free survival was identified between the two groups (P = 0.900), but we found that the majority of pseudoaneurysms were SVAA (4/5) and that they had a much higher event rate than true aneurysms. In addition, dyslipidemia may be an influential factor in the development of VAA (P = 0.010). Coil embolization is a safe and effective method of treatment for VAA. Most pseudoaneurysms have symptoms such as abdominal pain and bleeding, and in view of their risk, more attention should be paid to symptomatic patients and the nature of the aneurysm should be determined as soon as possible to determine the next stage of treatment.

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“…First, the heterogeneity of the data, which come mainly from case reports, case series, and portions of larger comparative studies conducted on VAAs, from which the data regarding r-SAAs and r-SAPAs were extracted. This also causes a wide heterogeneity in how results were reported and resulted in us excluding many studies in which the specific outcomes of r-SAAs and r-SAPA were not clearly provided [ 235 , 236 , 237 ]. In fact, the largest and most interesting studies on this topic report on VAAs considered as a whole, sometimes conducting subgroup analysis by aneurysm location or by symptomatic/asymptomatic presentation; visceral artery aneurysms should be seen instead as separated identities, each with its peculiarities, because of the differences in anatomy and physiology of the abdominal organs they supply.…”