UNUSUAL PSEUDOANEURYSMS AFTER CATHETERIZATION - SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT BY ULTRASOUND-GUIDED COMPRESSION

Postcatheterization pseudoaneurysms occur mostly in the femoral artery . Two patients (both women, aged 67 and 59 years) undergoing percutane ous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) at our institution presented pseudo aneurysms in unusual locations, one in the brachial and one in the pop liteal artery. Because of good experiences with ultrasound-guided comp ression repair (UGCR) in the femoral artery, we also successfully perf ormed this noninvasive treatment on the two patients. Follow-up at 28 and 12 months, respectively, after the procedure, showed no instances of recurrence. As with the excellent results of UGCR in the femoral ar tery, we believe that this new modality is also the treatment of choic e in iatrogenic pseudoaneurysms of the arm and popliteal arteries. (C) 1997 World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology.