Open AccessTwo Decades of Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Enormous Progress With Serious Lessons Learned
Author(s) -
Schanzer Andres,
Messina Louis
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of the american heart association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.494
H-Index - 85
ISSN - 2047-9980
DOI - 10.1161/jaha.111.000075
Subject(s) - medicine , aneurysm , abdominal aortic aneurysm , surgery , endovascular aneurysm repair , abdominal aorta , anastomosis , aorta , general surgery
The modern open surgical management of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) has changed little since its inception in the 1950s. Endoaneurysmorrhaphy, first described by Rudolph Matas in 1888, involved ligating the branches of an aneurysm from within the aneurysm sac. Approximately 25 years later at the