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The publication in this issue of the Journal of the Dutch Randomized Endovascular Aneurysm Management (DREAM) trial¹ and the recent publication of a similar study from the United Kingdom² provide the first randomized comparisons of the endovascular and open techniques for elective repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Elective repair is undertaken to prevent the rupture of aneurysms, which carries a mortality rate of about 80 percent. More than 40,000 procedures are performed each year in the United States. Open surgical repair, in which the aneurysm is opened and a graft sewn into place under direct vision, has proved durable in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Center for Epidemiological and Clinical Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis.

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