Background: Recent years have seen centralization of vascular surgery services in Ontario.
We sought to examine the trends in overall and approach-specific elective and ruptured …

Purpose: The burden of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) has changed in the last 20 years
but is still considered to be a major cause of cardiovascular mortality. The introduction of …

Importance Age and sex are important considerations in assessing and individualizing
therapy for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. Objective To determine the prevalence …

Background Patient outcomes after open abdominal aortic aneurysm and endovascular
aortic aneurysm repair have been widely reported from several large, randomized …

Objectives The uptake of endovascular aortic repair for elective and ruptured abdominal
aortic aneurysm repair is not well studied. We aimed to examine the trends in open surgical …

Nationwide vascular registries offer rapid feed-back in an environment of fast new technical
development, as is the case with the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) …

Objective Broad application of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) has led to a rapid
decline in open aneurysm repair (OAR) and improved patient survival, albeit at a higher …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare survival and outcomes of
endovascular versus open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) in New York State …

Background Randomized trials have shown reductions in perioperative mortality and
morbidity with endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm, as compared with open …

Objective To assess trends in abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) hospital admissions,
interventions, and aneurysm related mortality in England, and to examine the impact of …