Open AccessInitial Clinical Experience with the Endologix AFX Unibody Stent Graft System for Treating Patients with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: A Case Controlled Comparative Study
Author(s) -
George Kouvelos,
Petroula Nana,
Vasilios Bouris,
Michalis Peroulis,
Aikaterini Drakou,
Νικόλαος Ρούσας,
Athanasios D. Giannoukas,
Miltiadis Matsagkas
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
vascular specialist international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2288-7989
pISSN - 2288-7970
DOI - 10.5758/vsi.2017.33.1.16
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , abdominal aortic aneurysm , stent , aneurysm , endovascular aneurysm repair , aortic aneurysm , abdominal surgery , radiology , retrospective cohort study
The newly designed unibody AFX endograft system for endovascular aortic aneurysm repair is the only graft with anatomical fixation to the aortic bifurcation in comparison to most other grafts that use the infrarenal neck as the main fixation point. The aim of this study was to assess the preliminary results of the AFX stent-graft system used with infrarenal aortic component and compare them with those obtained in patients treated with a well established endograft of the same material and pure infrarenal fixation as the Gore Excluder.