A new study compared open surgical repair with a catheter-based procedure and found that the less invasive endovascular aortic repair has clear benefits for most patients. Each year, nearly 40,000 ...

Same-day discharge is safe and feasible in about one-third of patients who undergo endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) with a percutaneous closure device, according to a study ...

Minimally invasive surgery can prevent a fatal rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. And now a new study has found the procedure can extend lives even in patients who are at high risk for surgery ...

Investigators led by John Rose, MD, MPH, of the University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA), looked at data for 43,385 EVAR procedures and 27,561 open repairs extracted from the Nationwide ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) occurs in 5% of men and 1% of women over the age of 65. AAA rupture is fatal in 80%–90% of cases when pre-hospital deaths are included. Thus, elective repair should be ...

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MINNEAPOLIS— Endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) provides similar long-term survival to open repair, according to the latest results of the Open Versus Endovascular Repair (OVER) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rates of open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair decreased by nearly 80% among Medicare beneficiaries during the ...

This study evaluated the value of computed tomographic angiography (CTA) early after an endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) in relation to CTA 3 months after EVAR. We retrospectively reviewed all ...

Doctors of Meenakshi Super Specialty Hospital performed a minimally invasive endovascular repair on a 70-year-old man who was diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm. The doctors said the ...

A minimally-invasive procedure to fix a life-threatening condition may be associated with an increase in long-term complications, compared to an alternative procedure. The research, from scientists at ...