Treatment of Dacron Grafting Dilatation with Endovascular Stent Graftıng

Abstract

Dacron grafts are frequently used during surgical revascularization procedures. Complications including graft thrombosis and infection are well known; however, aneurysm formation is extremely rare. In this report, we describe dilatation of a Dacron graft detected four years after aortobifemoral bypass procedure in a 50-year-old male patient who was treated with endovascular stent grafting.

Late Non-Anastomotic Rupture of a Bifurcated Dacron Aortic Graft Treated Using a Gore Excluder Limb Endoprosthesis

“…The prosthetic rupture occurred 20 years after the initial operation and the authors deployed two stent grafts to cover the entire length of the defective graft. Furthermore, in a case of complete Dacron graft aneurysm degeneration detected in an aorto-bifemoral bypass, Ugurlucan et al [5] described successful use of the Endurant aorto-iliac endoprosthesis (Medtronic, Santa Roja, CA, USA) to treat this rare disorder. Particularly, use of the Gore Excluder contralateral limb endoprosthesis has been reported to treat isolated aneurysms of the common iliac artery or saccular abdominal aortic aneurysms, although in an upside down configuration [6,7].…”