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Endovascular and open repair for AAA are reviewed to compare indications, complications, and outcomes.
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Provides synthesis of AAA repair options; leaves open need for updated comparative trials in contemporary cohorts.
The purpose of this review is to highlight the indications, complications, and outcomes observed with endovascular or open repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms. We selected literature published during 2005 to 2008, encompassing a research period from 1987 to 2005 which compared these 2 techniques and followed various outcomes of morbidity and mortality.
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Duarte et al. (2009) studied this question. Endovascular and open repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms were reviewed to evaluate and compare their respective indications, complications, and outcomes of morbidity and mortality.