Aortic neck dilatation after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a word of caution.

Abstract

Continuing aortic neck dilatation, most probably an expression of ongoing aneurysmal wall degeneration of the infrarenal aortic segment, has been shown to seriously impair clinical results after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. However, conflicting data on the extent and clinical relevance on this observation have recently been published.

This article reviews the recent literature, summarizing our current understanding of the role of aortic neck dilatation after open surgical and endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

In addition, differences in methodology of studies on aortic neck dilatation are highlighted.

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Subjects

• Aorta, Abdominal
• Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal
• Blood Vessel Prosthesis
• Dilatation, Pathologic
• Humans
• Postoperative Complications
• Stents

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Authors

• Nicolas Diehm
• Florian Dick
• Barry T Katzen
• Juerg Schmidli
• Christoph Kalka
• Iris Baumgartner

Publication date

2008-04-02

Journal

Journal topics

• Vascular Surgical Procedures

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Journal of vascular surgery : official publication, the Society for Vascular Surgery [and] International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter

Swiss Cardiovascular Centre, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. diehm [at] gmx.ch

Release reference

J Vasc Surg. 2008 Apr;47(4):886-92

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