Surveillance imaging modality does not affect detection rate of asymptomatic secondary interventions following EVAR

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 276-281

  Chisci, E ^a   Setacci, F ^a   Iacoponi, F ^a   De Donato, G ^a   Cappelli, A ^a   Setacci, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic secondary intervention; Complications; EVAR; Follow up

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC SECONDARY INTERVENTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT INFECTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; LIMB DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STENT; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 84858077169     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2011.11.020     Document Type: Article

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