Influence of Proximal Fixation on Aneurysm Neck Evolution after Endovascular Treatment of Infrarenal Aneurysms.

Background: We analyzed the long-term influence of fixation systems on proximal aortic neck (PAN) evolution by comparing 2 late-generation endoprostheses, Endurant (Medtronic Vascular, Minneapolis, Minn) with suprarenal fixation (SRF) and Excluder (W.L Gore & Associates, Flagstaff, Ariz) with infrarenal fixation (IRF).

Methods: Our retrospective observational study included consecutive patients undergoing endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for aorto-iliac aneurysms (2011-2020).

Is perioperative COVID-19 really associated with worse surgical outcomes among vaccinated patients?

Introduction: During the surge of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, studies revealed high complication and morbidity rates following surgical procedures in COVID-19 positive patients. Anesthetic and surgical societies swiftly developed strategies to mitigate these risks, including a recommended postponement of elective surgeries for a minimum of 7 weeks post-COVID infection. Nowadays, with a predominantly vaccinated population, it has become crucial to discern the influencing factors on post-COVID morbidity and mortality and a reevaluation of the existing recommendations pertaining to elective surgery.

Intimal angiosarcoma of the descending aorta presenting as atheroembolism: case report and description of intravascular biopsy.

Aortic sarcoma is a rare entity. In most cases, the diagnosis is established late, owing to the course of the disease, with a median survival time of only a few months. We report the case of a 58-year-old patient with ischemic lesions in the lower limb.

A Bail Out Solution for an Urgent Situation: Endovascular Exclusion and Embolization of an Infected Femoral Pseudoaneurysm.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to show the utility of the combination of thrombin and endograft to solve an urgent situation related to femoral infections.

Case: We present the case of a 91-year-old female patient who underwent a femoral endarterectomy and superficial femoral artery angioplasty and developed a surgical site infection. She was readmitted to the hospital because of bleeding and was operated to suture the femoral patch and to do a plasty of sartorius muscle.

Aortic Curvature Remodeling after Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair: Assessing Device Conformability, Using Image Vector Analysis.

Background: Aortic arch curvature can be straightened by endograft placement. However, different measurement methods with dissimilar follow-up and endografts have been published. The aim of this study was to corroborate, for the first time, the pliability of the Conformable Gore TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis (W.