RSS Feeds
Repair of Unruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Hisato Takagi, MD, PhD;
- Norikazu Kawai, MD; and
- Takuya Umemoto, MD, PhD
- From Shizuoka Medical Center, Shizuoka 420 8688, Japan.
TO THE EDITOR:
In a systematic review of repair of unruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) by Lederle and colleagues (1), endovascular repair did not reduce all-cause mortality (relative risk, 0.95 [95% CI, 0.76 to 1.19]) but did reduce AAA-related midterm mortality (relative risk, 0.53 [CI, 0.31 to 0.92]) compared with open repair. However, the results of the EVAR (Endovascular Aneurysm Repair) I trial, 1 of the 3 trials included in the systematic review, were recently updated: The …
