Category: Endoleak
-
Off the guidelines: type II endoleak can derail the perfect EVAR
Every once in a while, I will make an exception to the SVS guidelines on AAA repair with regard to size at time of repair (link). I have a bunch of excuses. When I trained in 2000-2002 with several giants of vascular surgery, there was some controversy when the first guidelines came out in 2003 […]
-
Video Presentation: Removing Stent Grafts and It’s Implications for Putting Them In
This was presented at Dia De La Patología Aortíca Marbella organized by Dr. Fernando Gallardo. Here is the link.
-
A lot of people can put in a stent graft, unfortunately only a few can take them out.
I recently had to remove a stent graft for infection and got to thinking about how the number of people who could comfortably and confidently manage that has thinned out in the world through the unintended consequence of the medical device market place. In every surgical specialty over the past twenty years, many open […]
-
The Geometry of Parallel Grafts in the Iliac Arteries
The development of metachronous common iliac artery aneurysm, or progression of them, after prior treatment with EVAR (endovascular aneurysm repair), particularly with “bell bottoming” is typically treated with coil embolization of the internal iliac artery and extension of the stent graft into the external iliac artery. While CH-EVAR has been in the news with the […]
A Surgeon's Notes 