The Italian trial of endovascular AAA exclusion using the Parodi endograft.

Purpose: To report the outcome of the prospective 11-center Italian Parodi Trial using straight and tapered endografts for the endovascular exclusion of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA).

Methods: From April 1994 to July 1995, 27 patients were evaluated and selected for endovascular AAA exclusion. The Parodi devices were delivered through femoral arteriotomies using 18 to 22F introducers and deployed by balloon expansion of the terminal stents.

[Unidentified arteriopathy: an epidemiological study. The preliminary results].

The importance of the social and medical impact of arteriosclerotic disease fully justifies a series of studies focused on improving knowledge of this pathology before symptoms become manifest, so as to orientate treatment increasingly towards prevention. The aim of this study-of which the authors now report the preliminary results-was to establish the incidence of unidentified lower limb arteriopathy in the general population and to evaluate the relations between this and the possible presence of risk factors. The authors therefore decided to evaluate patients attending outpatient General Surgery clinic for symptoms manifestly not related to lower limb vascular pathology (arterial or venous).