Iatrogenic Femoral Artery Pseudoaneurysm (FAP) is a common complication that occurs in diagnostic and therapeutic catheterization procedures and can cause morbidity and even mortality in patients. Aneurysm larger than 2 cm, symptomatic or complicated should be treated. Here we report a 59-year-old man with post-catheterization FAP following femoral artery angiography, treated successfully by direct transcatheter autologous blood clot embolisation. To the best of our knowledge, our case report is the first to demonstrate that FAP can be successfully treated endovascularly by autologous blood clot embolisation.
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