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• TITLE: Successful use of emergent endovascular aneurysm repair for a ruptured hypotensive abdominal aortic aneurysm

  AUTHORS: Maria Basile, Fred Fiesseler, Richard D. Shih

  KEYWORDS: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm; Aneurysm; Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

  JOURNAL NAME: Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, Vol.2 No.2, May 24, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Ruptured aortic aneurysm has a surgical mortality ranging from 50%-70%, one of the highest rates of all vascular emergencies [1-5]. Less invasive approaches to repair have been developed that could potentially improve these statistics [1,5-7]. Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) is a minimally invasive approach that may be an alternative to open surgical repair for select cases of ruptured aortic aneurysms [1,5]. Unfortunately, the role of EVAR in patients with acute rupture of an abdominal aneurysm is not clear, especially for patients that are hemodynamically unstable [1,8-10]. The literature is limited regarding use of EVAR in this population of patients. We present a case of the successful use of EVAR for an emergent repair in a hypotensive hemodynamically unstable patient with an acutely ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).