PART 1. Preoperative and operative considerations
1. Long-term outcome following open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms
2. Durability of endovascular repair of infrarenal aortiliac aneurysms - what lessons have been learned?
3. Imaging techniques and protocols for endovascular reapir of abdominal aortic aneurysms
4. Essential operating room equipment, personnel and catheter inventory for endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms
5. Essential interventional suite design, equipment and personnel for endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms
6. Diagnosis, management and prevention of atheroembolization and contrast media-induced renal insufficiency during endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms
7. Anesthetic management for endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms
Part 2. Commercially available stent graft systems
8. Commercially available endovascular stent grafts
9. Ancure endograft
10. AnuRx stent graft system
11. Excluder bifurcated endoprosthesis system
12. Zenith AAA endovascular graft
13. PowerLink stent graft system
Part 3. Investigational stent graft devices
14. Lifepath AAA bifurcated graft system
15. Talent LPS endoluminal stent graft
16. Balloon-expandable stent and polytef-based endograft for repair of complex and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms
17. Custom Dacron-stainless steel stent grafts
Part 4. Intraoperative ancillary procedures
18. Use of intravascular unltrasonography in endovascular intervention
19. Intentional occlusion of the internal illiac artery to facilitate endovascular repair of aortoilliac aneurysms
20. Arterial access for endovascular aneurysm repair
21. Ancillary interventions to provide proxinal and distal endograft fixation
22. Prevention, diagnosis and management of endoleaks
Part 5
Appendix Reporting standards for endovascualr anuerysm repair
Rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is one of the leading causes of death. The risk of rupture has been a controversial topic for years and only recently have population-based studies provided better evidence for clinical management.This book includes material by an internationally renowned group of authorities directed by a prominent vascular surgeon at Mayo Clinic. The contents represent a well-balanced clinical endovascular approach to the exciting area of vascular medicine and surgery."We are living in a period of exciting transformation. The message for anyone interested in the treatment of vascular disease is to embrace the new endovascular techniques - learn them and improve them. This is the beginning of a new era." A. G. Hakaim