Authors

• Ana Bognar — University of Rijeka School of Medicine, University Hospital Centre Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia — ORCID: 0000-0002-9111-4198
• Ivana Raič — University of Rijeka School of Medicine, University Hospital Centre Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia — ORCID: 0000-0003-4297-1457

Keywords

abdominal aortic aneurysm, endovascular aortic aneurysm repair, treatment

DOI

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Abdominal aortic aneurysm, along with myocardial infarction and stroke is one of the most common diseases of blood vessels, and it is estimated that almost 10% of the male population over age 60 has an aneurysm. The mortality of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm in some cases is growing to an alarming 90%. With the former techniques of treating aneurysms, such as conservative (drug therapy) treatment and open surgery, in 1991 the endovascular aortic repair was introduced as a significantly less invasive method than surgery. The main difference between classic open surgery and endovascular stenting is that in the former method the stent is placed into the aortic aneurysm without the need of opening the abdomen and removing aortic tissue. Therefore, the recovery time is faster and the patients are released from the hospital within a week. Because of the mentioned advantages that endovascular repair of aneurysms has over traditional open surgery it can be mentioned advantages that endovascular repair of aneurysms has over traditional open surgery it can be considered as a valid alternative in the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms in specific indications. (1)

Literature

1. England A, Mc Williams R. Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR). Ulster Med J. 2013 Jan;82(1):3–10. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23620623/