Treatment of mycotic superior mesenteric vein pseudoaneurysm via placement of covered endovascular stent
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Pierre Perrault; Jules Eustache; Louis Bouchard; Edouard Girard; Réal Lapointe; Zhixia Rong
- Source
- Diagn Interv Radiol
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Pancreatic pseudocyst
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Endovascular Procedures
Stent
Technical note
medicine.disease
digestive system diseases
Surgery
Pseudoaneurysm
Mesenteric Veins
Treatment Outcome
Interventional Radiology
cardiovascular system
medicine
Humans
Stents
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
cardiovascular diseases
Superior mesenteric vein
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Complication
business
Aneurysm, False
- Language
- ISSN
- 1305-3612
Vascular pseudoaneurysms are a rare yet life-threatening complication of untreated pancreatic pseudocysts related to their high risk of rupture and bleeding. Several studies and reports have established endovascular approaches as a successful first-line therapy in the management of arterial pancreatic pseudoaneurysms. However, no reports have been published describing endovascular repair of a venous pseudoaneurysm that developed after infection of a chronically stable pancreatic pseudocyst, most likely due to its rare occurrence. We report in this technical note the treatment of a superior mesenteric vein pseudoaneurysm that developed as a result of an infected small pancreatic pseudocyst, by radiologic placement of a covered endovascular stent.