EVAR

Review

AAA Repair: When Will EVAR Become the Gold Standard?

05/29/2012

Fernando F. Gallardo, Sr., MD
Division of Vascular Surgery, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

Fernando F. Gallardo, Sr., MD Divisio...

EVAR is considered relatively safe and effective for treating infrarenal AAA. In patients with favorable anatomy, it is widely considered the therapy of choice among clinicians. The indications for EVAR are expanding, particularly in...

EVAR is considered relatively...

05/29/2012

Vascular Disease Management

Case Report

Hyperattenuated Crescent Sign Observed During Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

05/01/2012

Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms have a high mortality rate with only 50% of patients surviving to presentation at the emergency department. Of those who present, approximately one-third will demonstrate the classically described triad of...

Ruptured abdominal aortic...

05/01/2012

Vascular Disease Management

New Techniques

Changes in Open Surgery for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in the Endovascular Era

03/30/2012

Paola De Rango, MD

Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Hospital S.M. Misericordia, Perugia, Italy

Paola De Rango, MD Division of Vascu...

In less than 3 decades, EVAR has been converted from an escape procedure exclusively confined to high-risk patients to a primary choice procedure and preferred method for most patients with infrarenal AAA. Open surgery has increased in...

In less than 3 decades, EVAR has...

03/30/2012

Vascular Disease Management

Editor's Corner

EVAR Treatment of rAAA: A Major Advance

11/07/2009

Frank J. Criado, MD
Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Intervention, Union Memorial Hospital/ MedStar Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Frank J. Criado, MD Vascular Surgery ...

Dr. Frank Veith and his associates set out to improve the management of patients presenting with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (rAAA) in 1994, a short 2 years following the performance of the first endovascular repair (EVAR) in the...

Dr. Frank Veith and his...

11/07/2009

Vascular Disease Management