The patient has a type 3 endoleak at the flow divider of the medtronic endurant graft and it was definitively defined at the date above.The patient will now likely need to have the graft removed or converted to an aorto-uni endograft with a femoral to femoral graft.This is not the first patient i have seen with this problem and as the endovascular graft as placed in (b)(6) 2017, less than 1 year ago, this has to be considered a significant manufacturing problem.I have heard that this has been a problem and 2 of my colleagues have had patients have the same problem and this is something rather concerning for patient safety.
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