Endografting increases total volume of AAA repairs but not at the expense of open surgery: Experience in more than 1000 patients

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 274-279

  Wolff, Klaus S ^b   Prusa, Alexander M ^a,c   Polterauer, Peter ^a,c   Wibmer, Andreas ^c   Schoder, Maria ^a   Lammer, Johannes ^a   Kretschmer, Georg ^a,c   Huk, Ihor ^a,c   Teufelsbauer, Harald ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Austrian Armed Forces Hospital   (Austria)

^c Ludwig Boltzmann Research Institute of Interdisciplinary Clinical Vascular Medicine   (Austria)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Comparative study; Endovascular repair; Mortality; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGE; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ANGIOSCOPY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; OBSERVATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444481341     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/04-1397MR.1     Document Type: Review

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