Endurant stent-graft: A 2-year, single-center experience with a new commercially available device for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 439-448

  Troisi, Nicola ^a   Torsello, Giovanni ^a   Donas, Konstantinos P ^a   Austermann, Martin ^a  

^a ST FRANZISKUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Endograft; Endovascular aneurysm repair; Endurant stent graft

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY THROMBOSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STENT; THROMBOSIS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956336183     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: 15451550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/10-3090.1     Document Type: Article

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