The aorfix stent-graft to treat infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms with angulated necks and/or tortuous iliac arteries: Midterm results

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 567-576

  Perdikides, Theodossios ^a   Georgiadis, George S ^a   Avgerinos, Efthimios D ^a   Fotis, Theofanis ^a   Verikokos, Christos ^a   Hopkinson, Brian R ^a   Lagios, Konstantinos ^a  

^a Hellenic Air Force Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Endovascular aneurysm repair; Iliac artery; Neck angulation; Stent graft; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; AORTA; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; IMPLANTATION; INFRARENAL ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; LIFE TABLE METHOD; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; STENT GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71949109684     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: 15451550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/09-2822.1     Document Type: Article

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