Evaluation of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: anatomical classification, procedural success, clinical assessment, and data collection.
OBJECTIVE
To detail a methodology for evaluation of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair that has been achieved through consensus of an international multidisciplinary team of investigators.


METHODS
This schema features an anatomical classification for AAAs, a definition of procedural success, and a procedure for clinical assessment, as well as the necessary data collection forms. Patient data include demographics, procedural and clinical success, complications, and follow-up. Procedural details can be related to anatomic situations, comorbid processes, devices, and effective aneurysmal exclusion.


RESULTS
These data would allow assessment of the procedures, physician learning curves, procedural indications, techniques, methodologies, the relationship of indications to success and complications, devices and subsequent graft patency, and aneurysmal exclusion.


CONCLUSIONS
The use of this standardized data collection system could enable physicians and industry to better understand endovascular AAA repair and ultimately improve patient care.
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William Dorros-Isadore Feuer Interventional Cardiovascular Disease Foundation Ltd., Milwaukee Heart and Vascular Clinic, SC, USA.
Parodi
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Schonholz
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Jaff
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Diethrich
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White
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Mialhe
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Marin
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Stelter
W J
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White
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Coppi
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Bergeron
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D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011474:Prosthesis Design