Endovascular repair of AAA rupture 20 months after endoluminal stent-grafting.

Objective: To demonstrate the feasibility of endovascular repair of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) previously treated with an endoluminal stent-graft.

Methods: An 84-year-old man with a 9.5-cm AAA underwent endoluminal repair with an Endologix stent-graft, but a type I endoleak was detected postprocedurally. The patient was discharged and lost to follow-up. Twenty months later, he suffered an aneurysm rupture, which was repaired using endovascular techniques. Although he had a postoperative course complicated by aspiration pneumonia and renal failure, he recovered fully and was discharged from the hospital with no evidence of endoleak on the postprocedural imaging studies.

Conclusions: Late ruptures after endoluminal AAA stent-grafting can be successfully treated with endovascular techniques.