Endoluminal AAA repair using intravascular ultrasound for graft planning and deployment: A 2-year community-based experience

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 463-475

  Slovut, David P ^a,e   Ofstein, Lewis C ^b,c   Bacharach, J Michael ^b,d  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^e SMDC Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Ancure stent graft; AneuRx stent graft; Aortic neck; Atherosclerosis; Endovascular repair; Intravascular ultrasound; Outcome analysis; Secondary intervention

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA PROSTHESIS; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIALYSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; STENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0141479049     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/1545-1550(2003)010<0463:EARUIU>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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