The words aneurysm and pseudoaneurysm sound very similar, but they are two different conditions. An aneurysm is a weak spot in a blood vessel that has started to stretch and form a small bulge.

If you have a pseudoaneurysm, it’s important to get a diagnosis and the appropriate treatment because some pseudoaneurysms, if left untreated, may rupture.

The term pseudoaneurysm describes a collection of blood that is not bounded by all 3 layers of the arterial wall; the cause is usually trauma, which may include intravenous drug use. 1 In this setting ...

The patient was operated on with the diagnosis of arterial pseudoaneurysm. Doppler ultrasound examination performed under anaesthesia was normal. The superficial femoral artery from the common femoral ...

If abdominal pain and anemia develop in a patient with chronic pancreatitis, pseudoaneurysm should be considered. Erosion of the vessel wall from pancreatic enzymes may lead to arterial pseudoaneurysm ...

In the studies identified, the main complications reported were: intra-arterial thrombin injection necessitating thrombectomy for artery occlusion (2%, 3 out of 131 patients); pseudoaneurysm rupture ...

Four patients had a single pseudoaneurysm, two had two pseudoaneurysms, and one had three pseudoaneurysms. At the time of stent grafting, two pseudoaneurysms were overtly ruptured.

Images in Clinical Medicine Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm Authors: Andrew Burger, M.D., and Howard B. Sherman, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published June 21, 2001 N Engl J Med 2001;344: 1910 ...

However, one of its recognised, albeit rare, complications involves the formation of pseudoaneurysms in the mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa (MAIVF), a delicate fibrous region bridging the ...

CHICAGO—Using covered stents to treat pseudoaneurysms in arteriovenous (AV) grafts significantly increases the risk of graft infection, a study found. “This is the first study to show this ...