title: Endovascular repair of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms: pre- and postprocedural imaging.
abstract: Endovascular repair of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms is a safe alternative to conventional open surgical repair. Clinical success, however, is highly dependent on patient selection. Diagnostic vascular imaging has an essential role for this selection process. Following endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), patients require long-term surveillance and again vascular imaging serves an integral function. This article reviews EVAR selection criteria and post-EVAR assessment and then discusses the imaging modalities used to evaluate these patients, namely multi-detector-row computed tomographic angiography, magnetic resonance imaging/angiography, duplex ultrasonography, and catheter angiography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. jchellinger@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Jeffrey C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Hellinger
mesh_terms: D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D017543:Iliac Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends