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Volume 353:1181-1182 September 15, 2005 Number 11
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Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

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To the Editor: The long-term prognosis after successful repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is related to the presence and extent of underlying coronary artery disease.1 Blankensteijn et al. (June 9 issue)2 showed that the favorable response to endovascular repair, as compared with open surgery, at 30 days dissipated after one year.

We analyzed 396 patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (57 who had undergone endovascular repair and 339 who had undergone open repair) for long-term prognosis with regard to the presence or absence and the extent of coronary artery disease (Figure 1), as assessed by the number . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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