[Usefulness of Doppler color echocardiography in the treatment of femoral pseudoaneurysms]

Rev Esp Cardiol. 1993 May;46(5):319-21.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Four patients with a femoral pseudoaneurysm formation after a therapeutic cardiac catheterization are presented. The diagnosis was made by color-Doppler-ultrasound after clinical suspicion. The repair of this complication was performed using color flow ultrasound-guided compression of the pseudoaneurysm neck.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging*
  • Aneurysm / therapy
  • Echocardiography, Doppler*
  • Femoral Artery / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged