COIL EMBOLIZATION OF A GLUTEAL FALSE ANEURYSM IN A PATIENT WITH MARFAN-SYNDROME

Gluteal aneurysms, whether true or false, are exceptional. They repres ent less than 1% of all aneurysms and develop within the superior or i nferior gluteal arteries, being branches of the internal iliac artery. We report here the case of a 35-year-old patient with Marfan syndrome in whom annuloaortic ectasia and Barlow's disease with mitral valve i nsufficiency successively developed followed by a gluteal false aneury sm, which led us to investigate the etiologic mechanism of the patient 's conditions. The gluteal aneurysm was successfully treated by select ive embolization, which would appear to be the elective therapeutic ap proach for these;lesions.