Technology: Endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair Use: The tremendous enthusiasm within the international vascular community for endovascular aneurysm repair is evidenced by widespread clinical investigations and numerous reports in the literature. The device used for the procedure consists of a balloon-expandable metal stent covered with a dacron graft. The stent is introduced through ...

Endovascular repair of inflammatory aortic aneurysms has been reported as an alternative to open surgical treatment. In selective cases, adjunctive bypass surgery may be required to provide an adequate landing zone. We report a case of endovascular repair of an inflammatory aortic aneurysm in a patient with Behçet's disease using a carotid-carotid bypass graft to provide an adequate landing zon...

R uptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (rAAAs) are being treated by endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) and other endovascular techniques with increasing frequency. Endovascular procedures offer many potential advantages over open repair (OR); they are less invasive, eliminate damage to periaortic and abdominal structures, decrease bleeding from surgical dissection, minimize hypothermia, and less...

In a relatively short period of time, transcatheter and endovascular approaches to treat thoracic aortic and structural heart disease have exploded onto the scene. New device frontiers already being forged in the experimental stages include expanded indications and variations of fenestrated and branch stentgrafting to treat thoracoabdominal and arch disease, endovascular ascending and aortic ro...

OBJECTIVES Aortic dissection DeBakey type I and II may require distal reinterventions after initial proximal repair. We evaluated outcomes following open versus endovascular approaches to distal aortic pathologies after surgery for acute dissection. METHODS One hundred and forty-one consecutive patients underwent 152 distal reinterventions after previous type I or II dissection repair [63 (fi...

Objective The endovascular repair of aortic abdominal aneurysms exposes the patients and surgical team to ionizing radiation with risk of direct tissue damage and induction of gene mutation. This study aims to describe our standard of radiation exposure in endovascular aortic aneurysm repair and the factors that influence it. Methods Retrospective analysis of a prospective database of patient...

INTRODUCTION There are clear benefits of percutaneous versus open femoral access for endovascular aortic pathology repair. All closing devices commercially available are expensive. Surgical closure of the femoral artery risks potential prolonged wound healing and as a consequence longer hospital stay. Fascial closure is a technique that remains an interesting option. AIM To evaluate the effic...

BACKGROUND The value of performing transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) as part of the clinical assessment of patients awaiting endovascular repair of the abdominal aorta is little evaluated. We aimed to estimate the prognostic importance of information derived from TTE on long-term all-cause mortality in a selected group of patients undergoing endovascular aneurysm repair. METHODS AND RESULT...