Why the study?
Does long-term survival improve over time after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair?
Does long-term survival improve over time after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair?
Long-term survival after intact AAA repair has improved over time despite an increasingly older and more comorbid patient population.
Supports expanding intact AAA repair to higher-risk patients; extends Level 3 evidence on temporal survival trends.
Long-term survival improved over time after intact AAA repair despite a change in case mix toward older patients with more comorbidities. Long-term survival was stable after ruptured AAA repair.
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Mani et al. (2009) studied this question.
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