Early experience shows rapid shrinking of abdominal aortic aneurysms after endovascular treatment with Anaconda® device

Vasa - Journal of Vascular Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 199-204

  Stehr, Alexander ^a,b   Schnitzbauer, A A ^a   Steinbauer, M G ^a   Topel I ^a   Pfister, K ^a   Schlitt, H J ^a   Kasprzak, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Anaconda device; Aneurysm shrinking; Endoleak; Endovascular repair; Stent patency

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; STENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 34548275005     PISSN: 03011526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0301-1526.36.3.199     Document Type: Article

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