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Wlliam H. Baker, MD
Maywood, Ill

Arch Surg. 1998;133:249.

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Endovascular repair of aortic abdominal aneurysms is a promising new technique rapidly emerging on the horizon. The graft is inserted through a femoral cutdown and placed under fluoroscopic control, thus obviating an abdominal incision. Technical advances are being announced in increasingly shorter intervals. Although the devices are not yet approved for general use, it is clear that some, if not most, of our patients with aortic abdominal aneurysms will be treated by this method in the future.

Technically, a graft can be successfully inserted in almost all properly selected patients. The reluctance to embrace this technique is because of our lack of long-term follow-up and thus the long-term fate of these endografts. The grafts are held in place by a stent expanded against the wall of the aorta. Therefore, the material presented in this article is of extreme relevance.

White and her associates have demonstrated that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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