Influence of aortic neck characteristics on successful aortic wall penetration of EndoAnchors in therapeutic use during endovascular aneurysm repair

This study sought to quantify EndoAnchor (Medtronic Vascular, Santa Rosa, Calif) penetration into the aortic wall in patients undergoing endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair and to assess predictors of successful penetration and its relationship to postprocedural type IA endoleak.

Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - April 21, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Seline R. Goudeketting, Kim van Noort, Kenneth Ouriel, William D. Jordan, Jean M. Panneton, Cornelis H. Slump, Jean-Paul P.M. de Vries Source Type: research