Duplex ultrasound as the sole long-term surveillance method post-endovascular aneurysm repair: A safe alternative for stable aneurysms

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 845-849

  Chaer, Rabih A ^a   Gushchin, Anna ^a   Rhee, Robert ^a   Marone, Luke ^a   Cho, Jae S ^a   Leers, Steven ^a   Makaroun, Michel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOGRAFT; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EXPLANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LIMB; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUAL VOLUME; STABLE ANEURYSM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 63049112353     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.10.073     Document Type: Article

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