Comparison of EVAR and open repair in patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms: Can we predict results of the PIVOTAL trial?

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-59

  Lall, Purandath ^a   Gloviczki, Peter ^a   Agarwal, Gautam ^a   Duncan, Audra A ^a   Kalra, Manju ^a   Hoskin, Tanya ^a   Oderich, Gustavo S ^a   Bower, Thomas C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFUSION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DESCENDING AORTA SURGERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG THROMBOSIS; LIMB INJURY; LOG RANK TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHOCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANK SUM TEST; SMALL ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; SMOKING; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58449117375     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.07.085     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Gillum R.F. Epidemiology of aortic aneurysm in the United States. J Clin Epidemiol 48 (1995) 1289-1298
2. Reed W.W., Hallett J.W., Damiano M.A., and Ballard D.J. Learning from the last ultrasound: a population based study of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm. Arch Intern Med 157 (1997) 2064-2068
3. [No authors listed.]. The UK Small Aneurysm Trial participants. Mortality results for randomized controlled trial of early elective surgery or ultrasonographic surveillance for small abdominal aortic aneurysms. Lancet 352 (1998) 1656-1660
4. Lederle F.A., Wilson S.E., Johnson G.R., Reinke D.B., Littooy F.N., Acher C.W., et al. Immediate repair compared with surveillance of small abdominal aortic aneurysms. N Eng J Med 346 (2002) 1437-1444
5. Parodi J.C., Palmaz J.C., and Barone H.D. Transfemoral intraluminal graft implantation for abdominal aortic aneurysms. Ann Vasc Surg 5 (1991) 491-499
6. Zarins C.K., White R.A., Schwarten D., Kinney E., Diethrich E.B., Hodgson K.J., and investigators of the Medtronic AneuRx Multicenter Clinical Trial. AneuRx stent graft versus open surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms: multicenter prospective clinical trial. J Vasc Surg 29 (1999) 292-308
7. Makaroun M.S. The Ancure endografting system: an update. J Vasc Surg 33 (2001) S129-S134
8. Greenhalgh R.M., and EVAR trial participants. Comparison of endovascular aneurysm repair with OR in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (EVAR trial 1), 30-day operative mortality results: randomized controlled trial. Lancet 364 (2004) 843-848
9. Zarins C.K., Crabtree T., Bloch D.A., Arko F.R., Ouriel K., and White R.A. Endovascular aneurysm repair at 5 years: does aneurysm diameter predict outcome?. J Vasc Surg 44 (2006) 920-929 discussion 929-31
10. Ouriel K., Srivastava S., Sarac T., O'Hara P., Lyden P., Greenberg R., et al. Disparate outcome after endovascular treatment of small versus large abdominal aortic aneurysm. J Vasc Surg 37 (2003) 1206-1212
11. Cao P., and CAESAR Trial Collaborators. Comparison of surveillance vs Aortic Endografting for Small Aneurysm Repair (CAESAR) trial: study design and progress. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 30 (2005) 245-251
12. Ouriel K. Treating smaller AAAs. Does the availability of endovascular grafts change the size threshold for repair? 3 (2005) 39-42. www.evtoday.com
13. Chaikof E.L., Blankensteijn J.D., Harris P.L., White G.H., Zarins C.K., Bernhard V.M., et al. Reporting standards for endovascular aortic aneurysm repair. J Vasc Surg 35 (2002) 1048-1060
14. Peppelenbosch N., Buth J., Harris P., Marrewijk C., and Fransen C. Diameter of abdominal aortic aneurysm and outcome of endovascular aneurysm repair: does size matter?. A report from EUROSTAR. J Vasc Surg 39 (2004) 288-297
15. Zarins C., Crabtree T., Arko F., Heikkinen M., Bloch D., Ouriel K., and White R. Endovascular repair or surveillance of patients with small AAA. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 29 (2005) 496-503
16. De Rango P., Cao P., Parlani G., Verzini F., and Brambilla D. Outcome after endografting in small and large abdominal aortic aneurysms: a metanalysis. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 35 (2008) 162-172
17. The UK Small Aneurysm Trial participants. Final 12-year follow-up of surgery versus surveillance in the UK small aneurysm trial. British Journal of Surgery 94 (2007) 702-708
18. Brewster D.C., Jones J.E., Chung T.K., Lamuraglia G.M., Kwolek C.J., Watkins M.T., et al. Long-term outcomes after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. The first decade. Ann Surg 244 (2006) 426-438
19. EVAR trial participants. Endovascular aneurysm repair versus open repair in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (EVAR trial 1): randomised controlled trial. Lancet 365 (2005) 2179-2186
20. Williams J.B. Does pre-op AAA size influence sac regression and classical remodeling with the powerlink system? (2006), International Congress XIX Endovascular Interventions
21. Bui H., Lugan R., Nguyen A., Donayre C., Lee L., Wallot I., et al. Impact of endoluminal treatment on small abdominal aortic aneurysm: aneurysmal sac regression and secondary Interventions with 5-years of follow-up. Vascular Endovascular Surg 41 (2007) 294-300
22. Valentine R., DeCaprio J., Castillo J., Modrall J., Jackson M., and Clagett G. Watchful waiting in cases of small abdominal aortic aneurysms - appropriate for all patients?. J Vasc Surg 32 (2000) 441-452
23. Armstrong P., Back M., Bandyk D., Lopez D., Cannon S., Johnson B., and Shames M. Optimizing compliance, efficiency, and safety during surveillance of small abdominal aortic aneurysms. J Vasc Surg 46 (2007) 190-196