Secondary endovascular and conversion procedures for failed endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: Can we still be optimistic?

Vascular

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-22

  Pitoulias, Georgios A ^a,b   Schulte, Stefan ^a   Donas, Konstantinos P ^a   Horsch, Svante ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

"Open" conversion; Endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR); Endovascular interventions; Post EVAR surveillance; Secondary interventions

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65549160560     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6670.2009.00004     Document Type: Article

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