1994 Volume 55 Issue 5 Pages 1177-1180
Abdominal pseudoaneurysm is an extremely rare disease entity. Precise preoperative diagnosis is mandatory for the treatment of this disease and an accurate surgical approach that minimizes ischemia of the visceral organs has long since been needed according to origin. A 40-year-old woman with an abdominal injury was treated by blocking the abdominal artery to occlude the aneurysmal foramen between the celiac artery and superior mesenteric artery using a balloon catheter for intra aortic balloon pumping (IABP) under hypothermia. Postoperative course was uneventful. The patient was discharged from the hospital, and currently under follow-up observation.
