A hybrid operation in a patient with complex right subclavian artery aneurysm.

Abstract

We report a hybrid surgery including endovascular aneurysm repair and debranching procedures to treat a patient with a complex right subclavian artery aneurysm. The patient was a 70-year-old woman who presented with dry cough and hoarseness. The aneurysm was characterized by the absence of a proximal neck, and involvement of the origin of the right vertebral artery. She underwent carotid-vertebral artery bypass, stent graft from the innomiate artery to the common carotid artery and carotid-axillary artery bypass. Great saphenous vein was used for the carotid-vertebral artery bypass and 7 mm reinforced polytetrafluoroethylene graft was used for the carotid-axillary artery bypass. The postoperative course was uneventful.