Secondary modification into aortouniiliac configuration to salvage failed endovascular aneurysm repair is safe and effective but not associated with higher intervention rates during long-term follow-up.

Background: Reports of secondary modifications into aortouniiliac configuration to salvage-failed endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) are limited. We evaluated long-term results after these procedures and compared them with those after primary aortouniiliac endografting (AUE).

Methods: A retrospective review of all EVAR performed from March 1995 until July 2011 was conducted.

Aortouni-iliac endografting as an alternative salvage procedure to open conversion in failed endovascular aneurysm repair.

Purpose: To present a single-center experience with failed EVAR requiring conversions comparing open surgery to a minimally invasive procedure modifying the existing stent-graft into an aortouni-iliac (AUI) configuration.

Methods: A prospectively maintained database at our tertiary care university hospital was interrogated to identify all patients with failed EVAR who had undergone either stent-graft modification into an AUI configuration or open conversion between March 1995 and January 2012. Patients with late aneurysm ruptures were excluded.

Endovascular treatment of delayed rupture following prior abdominal aortic aneurysm repair achieves better survival rates.

Purpose: To test the hypothesis that endovascular treatment of delayed aneurysm rupture achieves significantly better survival rates compared to surgical conversion.

Methods: All patients sustaining delayed rupture following prior exclusion of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) either by endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) or open graft replacement from March 1995 through December 2011 were retrieved from a prospectively maintained database at a tertiary care university hospital. During the study period, 35 patients (32 men; mean age 72.

Aortomonoiliac endografting after failed endovascular aneurysm repair: indications and long-term results.

Objectives: To present long-term results of endoleak/endograft migration treatment by aortomonoiliac (AMI) endografting after failed endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Design: Post hoc analysis of a prospectively gathered database at a tertiary care university hospital.

Materials And Methods: From March 1995 to November 2010, 23 patients were identified who underwent modification into AMI configuration after failed elective EVAR.

Anastomotic pseudoaneurysms after surgical reconstruction: outcomes after endovascular repair of symptomatic versus asymptomatic patients.

Purpose: To compare perioperative and follow-up outcomes of symptomatic versus asymptomatic patients following endovascular repair of anastomotic pseudoaneurysms (APAs) of the abdominal aorta and iliac arteries.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 17 patients (two women), with a mean age of 66.2 years (range 30-83 years).