Five Year Results of the French EPI-ANA-01 Registry of Anaconda Endografts in the Treatment of Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms.

Objective: A significant decrease in aneurysm related survival is observed at long term follow up after infrarenal endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) compared with open repair. Therefore, longer term results with new generation endografts are essential. The aim of this post-approval French multicentre prospective observational study (EPI-ANA-01) was to evaluate the technical success and five year mortality and secondary intervention rates of the third generation Anaconda endograft.

In-situ revascularisation for patients with aortic graft infection: a single centre experience with silver coated polyester grafts.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the early and mid term outcome of patients with aortic graft infection who underwent in-situ revascularisation with a silver coated prosthesis.

Material: From January 2000 to December 2006, 24 consecutive patients (22 male, 2 female) with mean age 67 years were prospectively entered in this study of aortic graft infection at our single centre. Infection was managed with either total (n=19) or partial (n=5) excision of the infected graft and in- situ reconstruction with a silver coated prosthesis, Inter Gard Silver (IGSG).

Axillary loop grafts for hemodialysis access: midterm results from a single-center study.

Purpose: This study reports our midterm results with arteriovenous axillary loop grafts (AVALG) and evaluates their role in construction of vascular access for patients on chronic hemodialysis.

Methods: The clinical data of 27 patients who underwent construction of an AVALG for hemodialysis access at our institution between July 2002 and December 2006 were analyzed retrospectively. Outcome measures included graft patency, the complication rate, and the frequency and morbidity of secondary procedures after AVALG creation.

Percutaneous closure devices for endovascular repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms: a prospective, non-randomized comparative study.

Purpose: This study was designed to describe and evaluate our preliminary results with a percutaneous arterial closure device as compared to those obtained with conventional femoral surgical cut down during endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA).

Material And Methods: Between January 2004 and December 2006, 40 of 86 AAA patients selected for endovascular repair met the criteria for inclusion in this study. Nineteen of these patients (Group A) received a bifurcated endograft placed by direct puncture of the femoral arteries (38 femoral triangles) with closure by a Prostar((R)) percutaneous arterial closure device (Abbott).

Iliac conduit for renal and visceral artery access during endovascular repair of a pararenal aneurysm with a fenestrated stent-graft.

Purpose: To report a technique for fenestrated stent-graft repair involving a conduit implanted at the origin of a patent aneurysmal common iliac artery (CIA) in a patient with a pararenal aortic aneurysm and iliac artery occlusion.

Case Report: A 60-year-old man with multiple comorbidities presented with an 8-cm abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) with no infrarenal neck according to computed tomography (CT). Both CIAs were aneurysmal; the left was occluded, as were the left internal and external iliac arteries and the inferior mesenteric artery.