News tagged with endovascular repair

Customized device tailored to patient's individual anatomy now used to repair abdominal aortic aneurysm without surgery

An abdominal aortic aneurysm - a bulge in the large artery that carries blood away from the heart - can be immediately life-threatening if it grows large enough to rupture. The chance of survival when it ruptures is less ...

Other Feb 18, 2013 | not rated yet | 0

Long-term survival after less-invasive repair of abdominal aneurysm same as with 'open' procedure

Despite earlier signs that a less-invasive surgery is safer and better than "open" operations to repair potentially lethal abdominal aortic aneurysms, a study led by a Johns Hopkins professor shows survival rates after four ...

Surgery Dec 18, 2012 | not rated yet | 0 |