The Anaconda™ AAA Stent Graft System: 2-Year Clinical and Technical Results of a Multicentre Clinical Evaluation

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 732-740

  Rodel S G J ^a   Geelkerken, R H ^a   Prescott, R J ^b   Florek, H J ^c   Kasprzak, P ^d   Brunkwall, J ^e  

^a MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abdominal aorta aneurysm; Anaconda; Endovascular; Stent

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH; ENDOLEAK; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 71949106601     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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