Regular paperMid-term results of patients undergoing endovascular aortic aneurysm repair
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Patients and methods
Between September 1997 and May 2001, 105 consecutive patients underwent attempted repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms with the AneuRx endograft at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation. Patients were determined to be candidates for EAR based upon anatomic criteria identified by preoperative contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan and selectively obtained angiograms. Age, sex, presence of coronary disease, peripheral vascular disease, pulmonary disease, renal insufficiency,
Results
Between September 1997 and May 2001, 101 of 105 consecutive endovascular aneurysm repairs (EAR) experienced successful deployment of the AneuRx endograft. Two procedures were aborted for iliac access problems. Neither of these patients was considered an acceptable risk for conventional open repair because of comorbid illnesses; neither patient had follow-up at our institution. Two patients underwent acute conversion; specifically, 1 was converted for iliac artery dissection and the other for
Comments
Since its introduction by Parodi [7], EAR has become a viable alternative to and in many institutions has largely supplanted the standard open aneurysm repair. The endovascular technology, however, is fraught with device-related complications which mandate close follow-up and frequent secondary interventions, disadvantages when compared with open repair. Furthermore, the in-hospital cost alone of endovascular repair far exceeds that of open repair [8]. The 30-day mortality in this study was 2%,
Acknowledgements
Doctors Sternbergh, Yoselevitz, and Money are consultants for Medtronic/AVE. Medtronic/AVE has provided Drs. Sternbergh and Money with research support to administer FDA trials of their endograft.
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