Endovascular treatment of isolated iliac artery aneurysms

We report our experience of endovascular repair of isolated iliac artery aneurysms using commercially available stent grafts (SGs). Twenty-five patients (mean age 71 ± 7 years) presented with 33 isolated iliac artery aneurysms (common iliac artery n = 29, external iliac artery n = 4). Five patients were symptomatic. Depending on the proximal iliac neck and the presence of unilateral or bilateral iliac artery aneurysms, the patient was treated by tube or bifurcated SG that was delivered percutaneously (n = 14) or through surgical exposure of one femoral artery (n = 12). In our follow-up control protocol, the patients are routinely scheduled after 1, 4, and 12 months and then annually after the intervention. Primary technical success with an instant exclusion of the aneurysm was achieved in all patients. The perioperative (