PS50 Management of Thoracic Aortic Endograft Infection
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The widespread use of endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) has been accompanied by an increase in need to surgically treat infectious complications of aortic stent-grafts. Although this indication remains somewhat uncommon in most centers, the incidence of stent-graft infections ranges from 1% to 3% in small retrospective series [1,2]. Graft infection can occur as a primary event from ski...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vascular Surgery
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0741-5214
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2014.03.108