Three-Year Safety and Efficacy of the INCRAFT Endograft for Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Results of the INSIGHT Study.

Purpose: Preliminary results of the INSIGHT study showed that the low-profile INCRAFT Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Stent-Graft System was safe and effective in the endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). This study aimed to assess the durability and the midterm effectiveness of EVAR using the INCRAFT System in the framework of a multicenter, prospective, open-label, post-approval study.

Materials And Methods: Between 2015 and 2016, 150 subjects from 23 European centers treated with the INCRAFT System for an infrarenal AAA were included.

One-year results of the INSIGHT study on endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Objective: Endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) using the INCRAFT AAA Stent Graft System was safe and effective in regulatory approval studies. We herein report on the 1-year results of a real-world clinical study.

Methods: The INSIGHT study is a multi-center, prospective, open label, post-approval study conducted to continually evaluate the safety and performance of the INCRAFT System.

Clinical implications of fracture-associated vascular damage in extremity and pelvic trauma.

Background: Vascular damage in polytrauma patients is associated with high mortality and morbidity. Therefore, specific clinical implications of vascular damage with fractures in major trauma patients are reassessed.

Methods: This comprehensive nine-year retrospective single center cohort study analyzed demography, laboratory, treatment and outcome data from 3689 patients, 64 patients with fracture-associated vascular injuries were identified and were compared to a control group.

Interdisciplinary complication management of dislodged lumbar interbody spacer in pulmonary artery.

We report the case of an intraoperatively dislodged transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion spacer with creation of a traumatic arteriovenous fistula and device migration to the pulmonary artery. Successful minimally invasive angiographic retrieval of the spacer is discussed with special reference to angiographic and surgical treatment strategies and pitfalls.

The incidence of incisional hernia after aortic aneurysm is not higher than after benign colorectal interventions: A retrospective control-matched cohort study.

Background: Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) have most probably an inflammatory origin, whereby the elastica is the layer actually involved. In the past, collagen weackness was supposed to be the shared cause of both, AAA and incisional hernias. Since the development of new techniques of closure of the abdominal wall over the last decade, collagen deficency seems to play only a secondary etiologic role.