To What Extent Has Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Influenced Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Management in the State of Illinois?

Vascular surgery training trends from 2001-2007: A substantial increase in total procedure volume is driven by escalating endovascular procedure volume and stable open procedure volume

“…Several single institution reports [7][8][9][10][11] and one state-level report 15 have examined the effect of EVAR on open AAA training. Our analysis confirms the results of these earlier reports and extends the findings to the national level, again indicating that while the number of EVAR procedures performed by VSTs continues to increase, the number of open AAA procedures performed by VSTs continues to decrease.…”

Endovascular repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…The direction of inquiry was retrospective in eight studies, 21,[28][29][30]34,36,37 prospective in nine studies 22,[25][26][27][31][32][33]35,38 and not reported in one study. 24 None of the included studies reported blinding of the outcome assessors.…”

“…Table V, online only, summarizes the quality of the included studies. A control group was not described in seven studies, [21][22][23][24][25][26][27] was a historic cohort of patients undergoing open repair in three studies, [28][29][30] was a group of patients with symptomatic AAA in one study, 31 was a concurrent cohort of patients who were ineligible for REVAR (anatomically unsuitable or hemodynamically unstable) in two studies, 32,33 was a concurrent cohort of patients who were either ineligible for REVAR or who, though eligible, underwent open repair because equipment or staff were lacking at the time of their presentation in two studies, 34,35 was a concurrent cohort whose selection was not described in two studies, 36,37 and a combination of patients undergoing REVAR prior to implementation of an algorithm and a historical and concurrent group of patients undergoing open repair in one. 38 No study included in this review reported a control group comprised entirely of concurrent patients who were eligible for REVAR who underwent open repair.…”

“…Outcomes were prespecified in nine studies (50%). 23,29,30,[32][33][34][35][36]38 An algorithm to assess patients' eligibility for REVAR was used in 14 studies (72%). [21][22][23][24]26,[28][29][30][31][32][33]35,37,38 Funding sources were reported in two studies (11%).…”

Elective endovascular vs. open repair for abdominal aortic aneurysm in octogenarians

“…Table 5 summarizes the current literatures of treatment for AAA in octogenarians. [4][5][6][7][8]12,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] In this study, the incidence of CAD was 33.8%. The percentage of CAD varies by reports or countries, 21-33.3% in Japan 20,23 and 34-69% in US, [5][6][7][8]16,24,25 which may be caused by the difference of the lifestyle.…”