NONSURGICAL REPAIR OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC-ANEURYSM

The conventional treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm is surgical re placement with a synthetic graft. Attempts have been made to treat the se aneurysms using stent mounted grafts with reasonable success thus o bviating the need for surgery. However, certain problems like thromboe mbolism and the large profile are yet to be overcome. We report a case of a 75-year-old man where an attempt to repair a symptomatic abdomin al aortic aneurysm was made using an endovascular uncovered ''wall'' s tent combined with endosaccular coil implantation.