True Femoral and Popliteal Artery Aneurysms: Clinical Features and Treatment

Elizabeth Andraska; Rabih Chaer

doi:10.1007/978-3-032-13134-8_30

True Femoral and Popliteal Artery Aneurysms: Clinical Features and Treatment

Elizabeth Andraska
, Rabih Chaer

Surgery

University of Pittsburgh

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Abstract

Arterial aneurysms (AAs) of the periphery are uncommon, are likely underdiagnosed, and primarily confer a risk for limb loss. This is in contrast to abdominal and thoracic AA, which confer a significant risk to life, depending on size and growth rates. Peripheral aneurysms occur often in patients with more proximal arterial tree AA, and thus evaluation of synchronous disease in these patients is important. A peripheral AA is traditionally defined as an increased size of 150% of the proximal normal artery; for most patients, this is a dilation greater than 1.5 cm for the popliteal artery and ~2.5 for the common femoral artery. This chapter will focus on the modern evaluation and treatment of true peripheral AA, and will not discuss pseudoaneurysms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Contemporary Cardiology
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	453-465
Number of pages	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-13134-8_30
State	Published - 2026

Publication series

Name	Contemporary Cardiology
Volume	Part F1610
ISSN (Print)	2196-8969
ISSN (Electronic)	2196-8977

Keywords

Femoral/popliteal artery aneurysms
Open surgical treatment of PAA
Peripheral AA
Peripheral AA diagnosis
Peripheral AA pathogenesis
Risk factors for peripheral AA

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