Name of Surgery: Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair (Infrarenal)

 

In today's episode of our Holding Pressure (HP) Series, developed by medical students for medical students, Janhavi and Andrew review the basics of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR).

Authors: 

Janhavi Nikhil Patel is a third and final year medical student at McMaster University. She previously completed her undergraduate in Physiology from Western University. 

Andrew Lazar (@Lazar_andy) is a PGY-4 General Surgery resident at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey. He completed a T32 research fellowship in vascular surgery at Columbia University. He graduated from Weill Cornell Medicine.

Editor: Yasong Yu

Reviewers: Imani McElroy and Amanda Fobare

Core Resource:

• Rutherford's Vascular and Endovascular Therapy 9th Edition Chapter#69, 70, 72, 73

Additional Resources:

• EVAR-1 Trial - Endovascular versus Open Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. N Engl J Med, 362 (20) (2010), pp. 1863-1871, Endovascular versus Open Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm | NEJM
• OVER Trial - F.A. Lederle, T.C. Kyriakides, K.T. Stroupe, J.A. Freischlag, F.T. Padberg, J.S. Matsumura, et al. Open versus endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm. N Engl J Med, 380 (2019), pp. 2126-2135. Open versus Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm | NEJM

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• Landmark Papers - IMPROVE
• VSITE Review - AAA
• Endovascular Aortic Repair Preoperative Sizing
• VSITE Review - Vascular Access

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