Should usual criteria for intervention in abdominal aortic aneurysms be "downsized," considering reported risk reduction with endovascular repair?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1085, Issue , 2006, Pages 47-58

  Schermerhorn, Marc ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Aorta; Endovascular; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MICROCIRCULATION; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947603054     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1383.043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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