PURPOSE To compare the outcomes of open versus endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in a cohort of patients who fulfill morphological criteria for endovascular repair. METHODS A retrospective review of 229 consecutive AAA patients treated over a 3-year period identified 149 patients who were candidates for endovascular repair based on preoperative computed tomography and ang...

PURPOSE To present early and midterm results of the periscope endograft (PG) technique to maintain left subclavian artery (LSA) blood flow in thoracic endovascular aortic repairs (TEVAR) involving zone 3. METHODS From April 2010 to January 2013, 14 consecutive high-risk patients (11 men; mean age 70±8 years, range 56-87) underwent TEVAR with the PG technique for 10 thoracic aortic aneurysms (...

PURPOSE The newly designed unibody AFX endograft system for endovascular aortic aneurysm repair is the only graft with anatomical fixation to the aortic bifurcation in comparison to most other grafts that use the infrarenal neck as the main fixation point. The aim of this study was to assess the preliminary results of the AFX stent-graft system used with infrarenal aortic component and compare ...

Endovascular device migration is approximately 2% at 1 year using each of the Food and Drug Administration-approved devices (Medtronic AneuRx, Gore Excluder, Cook Zenith). In this report, we review the incidence, causes, and clinical importance of endograft migration over a 5-year period after endovascular aneurysm repair with the AneuRx stent graft. In a multicenter United States clinical tria...

Recent advances in hybrid techniques of aortic arch debranching allow for the repair of thoracic aortic arch aneurysm without requiring cardiopulmonary bypass or hypothermic circulatory arrest. We describe the repair of a ruptured proximal descending thoracic aortic aneurysm, using off-pump aortic arch debranching and antegrade transaortic deployment of a thoracic endograft in an elderly patient.

Introduction: Sufficient apposition and oversizing of the endograft are not regularly stated on post-EVAR (CTA) scan reports. In this study neck enlargement (NE) after EVAR with an Endurant II(s) were analyzed associated supra- infrarenal aortic morphology.