Long-term outcomes and factors influencing late survival following elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: A 24-year experience.

CONCLUSIONS: Open repair offers a good long-term treatment option for patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm and in our experience there is no significant difference in late survival between open abdominal aortic aneurysms repair and endovascular repair. Consideration of the factors identified in this study that predict reduced long-term survival for open abdominal aortic aneurysms repair and endovascular repair should be considered when deciding repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm. PMID: 25972030 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Vascular - May 12, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Khashram M, Jenkins JS, Jenkins J, Kruger AJ, Boyne NS, Foster WJ, Walker PJ Tags: Vascular Source Type: research