EVAR

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