Observing a Decade of Yearly Standardised Surveillance in EVAR-Patients with Ultrasound or CT-Scan: Preliminary Analysis Within 5 Centres

Introduction: Yearly imaging surveillance is recommended to all patients following endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) to detect complications requiring re-intervention. EVAR is currently the predominant technique for elective infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair in the Netherlands. Consequently, a cumulative amount of hospital visits for imaging surveillance will arise. This causes a burden on both patients and the healthcare system. We therefore aimed to study the re-intervention free survival and survival stratified for patients with and without yearly imaging surveillance.

Source: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery - November 30, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Anna Geraedts, Sylvana de Mik, Sana Mulay, Ron Balm, ODYSSEUS Study Group Source Type: research