Abdominal aortic aneurysm and congenital pelvic kidney. A rare association

Tex Heart Inst J. 1997;24(2):131-3.

Abstract

We report the case of a 65-year-old man who presented with an infrarenal aortic aneurysm in association with a congenital right pelvic kidney vascularized by 2 aortic arteries, 1 of which arose from the aneurysmal aorta and the other from the common right iliac artery. Successful surgery consisted of excising the aneurysmal aortic segment and replacing it with a Dacron tube graft, then implanting the upper renal artery (supplemented by a short segment of saphenous venous graft) in the Dacron prosthesis. We review 6 other cases of this rare pathologic association, found in our search of the literature, and discuss techniques of renal protection and (when necessary) reimplantation of the anomalous arteries.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / complications*
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / surgery
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis
  • Humans
  • Kidney / abnormalities*
  • Kidney / blood supply
  • Male
  • Renal Artery / surgery*
  • Saphenous Vein / transplantation
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography