Patient fitness and survival after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in patients from the UK EVAR trials : The EVAR Trial Participants

Incidence of cardiovascular events and d

Incidence of cardiovascular events and death after open or endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm in the randomized EVAR trial 1

✍ L. C. Brown; S. G. Thompson; R. M. Greenhalgh; J. T. Powell; on behalf of the En 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 132 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract ## Background The aim was to compare rates of myocardial infarction, stroke and cardiovascular death in patients with a large abdominal aortic aneurysm who had endovascular (EVAR) or open repair to determine whether cardiovascular mortality explains the convergence in survival curves a