Endovascular Treatment of Left Subclavian Artery Pseudoaneurysm after Clavicle Fracture in an Elderly Adult with a 40-Year History of Behçet’s Disease

Kengo Nishimura; Takafumi Hamasaki; Shuichi Yamamoto; Tsuyoshi Kawai; Kimihiko Sugiura

doi:10.3400/avd.cr.15-00082

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Endovascular Treatment of Left Subclavian Artery Pseudoaneurysm after Clavicle Fracture in an Elderly Adult with a 40-Year History of Behçet’s Disease

Kengo Nishimura, Takafumi Hamasaki, Shuichi Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Kimihiko Sugiura

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Keywords: endovascular treatment, Behçet’s disease, subclavian artery pseudoaneurysm

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2015 Volume 8 Issue 4 Pages 328-330

DOI https://doi.org/10.3400/avd.cr.15-00082

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Abstract

Behçet’s disease (BD) is a rare chronic systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology that presents in young adults. We report a very rare case of a left subclavian artery pseudoaneurysm identified after a left clavicle fracture in a 70-year-old man with a 40-year history of intestinal BD. The patient received fixation by banding to treat a fracture after falling from a bed about 5 months previously, and he was referred to our hospital due to the finding of a left subclavian pulsatile mass. As enhanced computed tomography showed a left subclavian artery pseudoaneurysm, it was repaired using an endovascular stent graft.

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