Two-center German experience with aortic endografting.

Purpose: To report the results of a two-center study of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) exclusion using a polyester-covered nitinol stent-graft.

Methods: Candidates were evaluated with arteriography and computed tomography. Criteria for endovascular therapy were a proximal aortic neck > 10 mm in length and < 25 mm in diameter, no bilateral internal iliac artery involvement in the aneurysm, no markedly tortuous common iliac arteries (CIAs) or CIAs < 7 mm in diameter, and no superior mesenteric artery occlusive disease.