Introduction: Behcet's disease is a systemic vasculitis with vascular tropism usually manifested by phlebitis. Arterial manifestations are rare, most often result in aneurysms than occlusions. The objective of this article, is to relate our experience and pretherapeutic reasoning for the indication of an endovascular treatment of an atypical sacciform iliac aneurysm, in an elderly patient followed for Behcet's disease.
Case report: This is a 73-year-old patient, followed for Behcet's disease under immunosuppressive treatment and corticosteroids treatment, admitted to our structure, for the surgical management of an aneurysm of the right common iliac artery diagnosed by computed tomographic angiography performed for chronic paroxysmal abdominal pain, treated by EVAR after a multidisciplinary discussion, complicated by a thrombosis of the left leg of the bifurcated aortic stent graft the, managed by performing an extra anatomical bypass, complicated late by the appearance of a Scarpa hematoma, who was evacuated.
Discussion: Behcet's disease is a systemic vasculitis with vascular tropism, usually affecting young. Our case is an elderly subject, whose diagnosis and follow-up of Behcet's disease is recent and whose discovery of this aneurysm was fortuitous, after performing a CT angiogram required for another reason. The objective of this article, is to relate our experience and pre-therapeutic reasoning for theindication of an endovascular treatment, and our management of the complications.
Conclusion: Endovascular treatment of iliac sacciform aneurysm by placing a covered stent is a good alternative to conventional surgery with fewer complications; especially in front of a field of Behcet's disease.
Keywords: Behcet's disease; EVAR; Iliac artery aneurysm.
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