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Filter by:Re-hospitalization or re-intervention is sometimes necessary to treat type I and type III endoleaks after EVAR for its persistent increasing of pressure in aneurysm lumen. Color-coded quantitative digital subtraction angiography (CQDSA) provides an easy and quick way to post-process the traditional digital subtraction angiography (DSA) which converts the peak time of the maximal contrast medium intensity into a single polychromatic image. With the help of CQDSA, a quantitative evaluation of the endoleak hemodynamics and a risk analysis of the type I or type III endoleak could be performed during the EVAR procedure. This approach may offer an objective assessment of the needs for immediate re-intervention, conservative therapy or treatment endpoint in the future.
Principles= Prevention of incision hernias by primary closure of mid line laparotomies with the best-evidenced suture techniques. Background: Surgical practice of abdominal wall closure continues to rely largely on tradition rather than high-quality level I evidence. Incisional hernia after laparotomy for treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) has a high incidence. At this moment the best results in a prospective randomised clinical trial considering incision hernia rates and wound infections, have been reported by the surgeons from the Sundsvall clinic in Sweden. Their technique using a suture to wound length ratio of at least 4/1 and using many small stitches will be described in the protocol as the "Principles Technique". We want to explore if these results can indeed prevent incision hernias significantly if implemented with training and tutoring. Methodology:Vascular surgeons,who are not using the principles yet, but show an interest to learn the Principles, will be asked to monitor a cohort of AAA patients using their current sutures and surgical techniques. Some of the vascular surgeons will undergo training and if wanted, proctoring during the first procedures using the Principles. A cohort of 120 AAA patients will be closed according to the Principles and monitored. The results of these 120 patients will be compared to the control group consisting of patients closed with the conventional technique by non--‐trained surgeons. Primary endpoint:The incidence of incision hernias at 12 months will be determined by clinical examination. Data management and ownership: The data will be collected on a paper form and will be introduced is a database (SPSS Statistics, IBM) from which statistical analysis will be made.
The purpose of this clinical research study is the design of a novel modular hybrid system extracorporeal circulation circuit for open heart procedures that could easily be converted from a closed to a semi-closed circuit according to the indication. This could expand the potential of minimal extracorporeal circulation and could ultimately become the new standard circuit in performing every type of cardiac surgery.
This post-market study is approved by the US FDA to evaluate the long-term safety and performance of the Zenith® Fenestrated AAA Endovascular Graft.
The Post-Approval Study (PAS) will evaluate the "real world" data on the Ovation™/Ovation Prime™ Abdominal Stent Graft System along with the long-term data collected from the IDE cohort to monitor the long-term safety and effectiveness of the device.
This study is being conducted to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Progel Vascular Sealant for use in vascular reconstructions to achieve adjunctive hemostasis by mechanically sealing areas of leakage.
Elective minilaparatomy abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair is associated with a significant number of complications involving respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and central nervous system, and mortality ranging up to 5%. In our study, we tested the hypothesis that intraoperative and postoperative intravenous restrictive fluid regime reduces postoperative morbidity and mortality and improves the outcome of the treatment of minilaparotomy AAA repair.
This study will test the hypothesis that GSK1278863 will reduce neurologic, renal, and/or cardiac ischemia in patients undergoing elective descending thoracic aorta/thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (DTA/TAAA) repair, a population known to be at high risk for ischemic events from their underlying pathology and the surgical complexity required to address their disease. Approximately 160 subjects will be stratified according to intervention type (surgical or endovascular repair, with the latter limited to 50% of the total study population) and randomized in a 1:1 fashion to treatment with GSK1278863 (300 milligrams [loading dose] followed by 100 milligrams [mg]/day x 4 days) or placebo starting prior to planned repair, through postoperative day 3. The duration of participation in this study is expected to be approximately 4 to 8 weeks from screening to follow-up.
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is an abnormal dilatation of the aorta in the abdomen secondary to hypertension and atherosclerosis. Surgical treatment of AAA is increasingly being replaced by endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) using stent-grafts (SGs). However, the efficacy of this less invasive approach is often jeopardized by the incidence of persistent flow within the aneurysm, called endoleaks leading to aneurysm rupture if not properly detected and treated. Hence, a life long annual CT-scan surveillance is required increasing the cost of EVAR, exposing the patient to ionizing radiation and nephrotoxic contrast agent. The goal of this project is to adapt and test a new ultrasound technology called ultrasound elastography to improve patient follow-up after EVAR and ultimately avoid the use of CT-scans. This technique measures the deformation of the tissue secondary to blood pressure variation (quasi-static elastography) or to a shear wave generated by the ultrasound probe (dynamic elastography). The investigators will optimize 2 approaches to generate elastic maps of the AAA. One approach will be a quasi-static elastography (QSE-LSME) technique developed by our team giving an estimation of the deformation (strain) of the different components of the AAA by the blood pressure. The second is a dynamic elastography (SSWI) technique that will provide information on the elastic property of the AAA components.
Various medical therapies have been proposed to prevent abdominal aortic aneurysm expansion. However, there have been very few randomized clinical trials to support use of any of these treatments. Several animal studies and observational reports suggest that ARBs can be useful in reducing abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) growth. However, so far, ARBs have not been evaluated in a randomized clinical trial. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of valsartan, an ARB, on annual growth rate in comparison with atenolol, a beta-blocker. Our hypothesis is that valsartan is superior to atenolol in the suppression of the aneurysm growth at 12 months. The BASE trial is designed as a investigator-initiated, multi-center, randomized controlled open-label trial. Patients with small AAA (aorta diameter <5cm) will be randomized 1:1 either to valsartan or to atenolol group. Randomization will be stratified by the AAA size (max. diameter >4 cm or ≤4 cm). Patients will receive either valsartan (daily dose 80 mg or more) or atenolol (daily dose 50 mg or more) for 12 months. A CT scan will measure the maximal diameter of AAA at baseline and 12 months. The annual growth of AAA will be compared between the valsartan and the atenolol group.