Endovascular repair versus open repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms: a multicenter randomized controlled trial.

Objective: Randomized comparison of endovascular repair (EVAR) with open repair (OR) in patients with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (RAAA).

Background: Despite advances in operative technique and perioperative management RAAA remains fraught with a high rate of death and complications. Outcome may improve with a minimally invasive surgical technique: EVAR.

Endovascular management of traumatic ruptures of the thoracic aorta: a retrospective multicenter analysis of 28 cases in The Netherlands.

Background: Minimally invasive endovascular treatment of a traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta is a new strategy in the care of multitrauma patients. We report the experience in The Netherlands with endovascular management of patients with acute traumatic ruptures of the thoracic aorta.

Methods: We reviewed 28 patients with a traumatic thoracic aortic rupture treated with a thoracic aortic endograft between June 2000 and April 2004.